noun Informal.
any sticky or greasy residue or accumulation: gunk on the oil filter.
Origin:
1932, Americanism; originally a trademark name for a degreasing solvent
1932, Americanism; originally a trademark name for a degreasing solvent
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| —n | |
| informal slimy, oily, or filthy matter | |
| [C20: perhaps of imitative origin] | |
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Gunk
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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Word Origin & History
gunk
1949, "viscous substance," Amer.Eng., apparently from Gunk, trademark for a thick liquid soap patented 1932 by A.F. Curran Co. of Malden, Mass.
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Slang Dictionary
gunk definition[gəŋk]
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Example sentences
Used for millennia to congeal soy milk into tofu, this gunk has hundreds of applications.
It's an old-fashioned word describing the kind of gunk the universe might have been made of before it big-banged.
Lungs-to-sinuses clogged up with gunk, which fortunately has not yet turned green.
Food particles and water are spun off as a creamy gunk that he removes with a rag.
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