gouger vs cheater

gouger and cheater both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
gouger	Yes	No	No	No
cheater	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cheater is a hypernym of gouger; that is, cheater is a word with a broader meaning than gouger:

Other hypernyms of gouger include beguiler, cheat, deceiver, slicker, trickster.

gouger (noun)	cheater (noun)
a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud	someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
an attacker who gouges out the antagonist's eye