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▪ I. ‖ gunge1, gunj|gʌndʒ|
Also 8 gunja.
[a. Pers. ganj a magazine, granary.]
A market.
1776Trial of Nundocomar 93/1 On a terrass, up stairs, there is an upper room, where Gungabissen lives: on the outside of that, there is a gunja, where we sat. 1794Burke Sp. agst. W. Hastings Wks. XV. 365 By employing military men..as masters of markets and of gunges. 1800Asiat. Ann. Reg., Misc. Tracts 290/1 The town of Bopaul is extensive... On the outside is a large gunge, with streets wide and straight. 1848Stocqueler Orient. Interp., Gunjes, grain-markets.
▪ II. gunge2 slang.|gʌndʒ|
[Of uncertain origin; perh. associated with goo, grunge, gunk, etc.]
A sticky or viscid mass; any messy or clogging substance, esp. one considered otherwise unidentifiable. Also, general rubbish, clutter, filth.
1969Sunday Times 7 Dec. (Business News) 35/7 Recently the Birkenheads received an export order for a rather special type of..er, well, gunge. This was for lissage, which is also known as English Ground Flake, mixed with linseed oil. 1970Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1181/1 Gunge, grease; oily dirt, the opposite of clag, dry dirt: engineers': since ca. 1940. (D. F. Wharton, Oct. 24, 1965.) 1973Amat. Photographer 3 Jan. 33/3, I use a soft bristle brush and pure soap to really get the gunge out of the grooves [of a gramophone record]. 1977Times Lit. Suppl. 6 May 547/1 Handed down like the recipe for some regional gunge from one bad cook to the next. 1979New Scientist 11 Jan. 93/2 They call this solid material tholin (after the Greek word for muddy), but it seems likely that chemists will continue to call this rather familiar material ‘gunge’. 1985Listener 30 May 37/1 Adam and Eve emerge from a transportable saucer of murky gunge.
Hence as v. trans., to clog (something) up, as with a sticky or messy substance; also intr., to become obstructed or clogged up.
1976Nichols & Armstrong Workers Divided i. 68 They could be involved in very heavy physical work when, inevitably, this particular plant ‘gunged up’. 1977Sounds 1 Jan. 20/4 A few academic ‘experts’ know something about the short-term effects of sniffing, but aren't too sure about exactly how it gunges up the body. |