Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - gunk
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Gunk
gunk
You use gunk to refer to any soft sticky substance, especially if it is unpleasant. (INFORMAL) = gunge N-UNCOUNT
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1.
noun Etymology: from Gunk, trademark for a cleaning solvent Date: 1943 filthy, sticky, or greasy matter • ~y adjective ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
2.
n. sl. viscous or liquid material. Etymology: 20th c.: orig. the name of a detergent (propr.) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
~1 n informal any substance that is dirty, sticky, or unpleasant; gunge BrE (The milk congealed into a black gunk on the stove.) - gunky adj ~2 v be gunked up (with) AmE informal to be blocked with a dirty sticky substance (Here's your problem. The fuel line's all gunked up.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
4.
- 1949, Amer.Eng., apparently from Gunk, trademark for a thick liquid soap patented 1932. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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