gouger

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From gouge + -er.

That gouger M’Coy stopping me to say nothing. — Ulysses, James Joyce
“Well, you can't expect me to show any special neighborly kindness to the Wall Street gouger who kept me tied up without a charter two months last spring with his steamboat combinations and his dicker deals!” “How are we to take that, sir?” asked Bradish. — Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast, Holman Day
"Young {046}man," quoth Clay, "avoid the way of Slick of Tennessee; Of gougers fierce, the eyes that pierce, the fiercest gouger he; He chews and spits, as there he sits, and whittles at the chairs, And in his hand, for deadly strife, a bowie-knife he bears. — The Book of Ballads: Eleventh Edition, 1870, Theodore, Sir Martin

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