Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thick greasy substance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun informal any thick gooey and messy substance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable, informal
dirt orgrime ; any vague or unknown substance - noun uncountable A subculture of 21st century American males, combining elements of modern
gothic culture withpunk rock. - noun countable A member of the gunk subculture.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any thick, viscous matter
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Meanwhile, the brownish-blackish gunk is drifting along the coast to the northeast, Brower said.
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It then looks at your photo to see how much that theoretical sunlight has been obscured, and from that calculates how much gunk is in the air (it doesn't work yet on highly cloudy days).
How Your Droid Phone Can Track Air Pollution Siel Ju 2010
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Meanwhile, the brownish-blackish gunk is drifting along the coast to the northeast, Brower said.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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The real gunk is on the three little rollers underneath the mouse that holds the ball in place.
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A vegetable stir-fry and a glass of red wine might go a long way toward preventing the formation of the brain gunk that can lead to Alzheimer's disease, studies report Monday.
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What kind of gunk gets carried in different gyres.
Gyre and Gimble 2009
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“What do you mean, what kind of gunk gets carried in the water?”
Gyre and Gimble 2009
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What kind of gunk gets carried in different gyres.
Gyre and Gimble 2009
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But I was looking in the tank (to see if it needed more salt) and realized there was some kind of gunk on the inside walls.
*phone hate* melted_snowball 2007
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Makes me wonder what kind of gunk got into the kids while we were using the dishwasher dirty!
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Gunk is a Northern Irish term meaning “a shock of disappointment”.
'It's a mistresspiece!': the 14-hour film about forgotten female directors Kate Muir 2020
yarb commented on the word gunk
"...a kind Providence furnishes the limpest personality with a little gunk or starch in the form of tradition."
- George Eliot, Middlemarch
February 13, 2008
vanishedone commented on the word gunk
I'm surrounded by ontologists who are concerned about the possibility of gunk. Apparently in mereology it's a term for stuff that isn't ultimately composed of fundamental particles: the parts all have further parts.
November 3, 2008