To Gouge (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

To Gouge

To squeeze out a man’s eye with the thumb: a cruel practice used by the Bostonians in America.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

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