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单词 gunk
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Definition of gunk in English:

gunk

noun ɡʌŋkɡəŋk
mass nouninformal
  • An unpleasantly sticky or messy substance.

    factories spewing out unspeakable gunk
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Beneath the jet of hot water, a dollop of yellow yoghurt-like gunk scrubs the excess oil from my skin.
    • The black gunk stuck on their coats like glue and many of the birds could not move their wings.
    • It wasn't the smell of dirt and grime and gunk and deprivation.
    • The kitchen was the first room, and the garbage was overflowing, the counters were caked with gunk, and there were sticky spots on the floor.
    • Hulls can collect a heavy coating of gunk during the winter months.
    • I have been reduced to a quivering heap of tears after getting mushroom gunk under my fingernails when cooking Peter dinner.
    • This was a rather unusual feature that included stories about flubs, black gunk, and sewage plants.
    • After that, you just mix the pineapple gunk with the sugar syrup, the milk and lemon juice and put in the fridge.
    • It had a tendency to mix with clay-rich mud to form a gooey, sticky gunk that adhered to everything.
    • When I purified three quarts of tap water by distilling it, I got one pitcher of clean water and a residue of gray gunk.
    • We all know black strap molasses - that sticky, bitter, dark black gunk that is a by-product of the sugar industry.
    • Trees don't grow very well through concrete, and with all this gunk in the air the grass is more yellow than green.
    • I live near a busy road and heaven knows what the Carbon Monoxide and other gunk that is churned out by cars and lorries do to me.
    • Next, gauze is applied along with another layer of mineral gunk.
    • He was going to have to reach around in the mud and gunk at the bottom of the pond for their hats.
    • There came a point that I was so covered in sludgey brown gunk that I just didn't care.
    • The toe, or bottom of the scabbard is closed to prevent any dirt or gunk from entering.
    • Comets are in effect dirty snowballs, water ice coated in organic gunk.
    • Besides, heating amino acids with other gunk produced by Miller experiments would destroy them.
    • Inside them you will usually find dust mixed up with gunk and dried ink.
    Synonyms
    mud, muck, mire, ooze, silt, alluvium, dirt, slime, slush, slurry

Origin

1930s (originally US): the proprietary name of a detergent.

  • This was originally a US usage and came from the proprietary name of a detergent.

Rhymes

bunk, chunk, clunk, drunk, dunk, flunk, funk, hunk, Monck, monk, plunk, shrunk, skunk, slunk, stunk, sunk, thunk, trunk
 
 

Definition of gunk in US English:

gunk

nounɡəNGkɡəŋk
informal
  • An unpleasantly sticky or messy substance.

    factories spewing out unspeakable gunk
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Comets are in effect dirty snowballs, water ice coated in organic gunk.
    • Besides, heating amino acids with other gunk produced by Miller experiments would destroy them.
    • I have been reduced to a quivering heap of tears after getting mushroom gunk under my fingernails when cooking Peter dinner.
    • Trees don't grow very well through concrete, and with all this gunk in the air the grass is more yellow than green.
    • I live near a busy road and heaven knows what the Carbon Monoxide and other gunk that is churned out by cars and lorries do to me.
    • This was a rather unusual feature that included stories about flubs, black gunk, and sewage plants.
    • He was going to have to reach around in the mud and gunk at the bottom of the pond for their hats.
    • The black gunk stuck on their coats like glue and many of the birds could not move their wings.
    • There came a point that I was so covered in sludgey brown gunk that I just didn't care.
    • The kitchen was the first room, and the garbage was overflowing, the counters were caked with gunk, and there were sticky spots on the floor.
    • We all know black strap molasses - that sticky, bitter, dark black gunk that is a by-product of the sugar industry.
    • When I purified three quarts of tap water by distilling it, I got one pitcher of clean water and a residue of gray gunk.
    • After that, you just mix the pineapple gunk with the sugar syrup, the milk and lemon juice and put in the fridge.
    • Next, gauze is applied along with another layer of mineral gunk.
    • It wasn't the smell of dirt and grime and gunk and deprivation.
    • Hulls can collect a heavy coating of gunk during the winter months.
    • The toe, or bottom of the scabbard is closed to prevent any dirt or gunk from entering.
    • Beneath the jet of hot water, a dollop of yellow yoghurt-like gunk scrubs the excess oil from my skin.
    • It had a tendency to mix with clay-rich mud to form a gooey, sticky gunk that adhered to everything.
    • Inside them you will usually find dust mixed up with gunk and dried ink.
    Synonyms
    mud, muck, mire, ooze, silt, alluvium, dirt, slime, slush, slurry

Origin

1930s (originally US): the proprietary name of a detergent.

 
 
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