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gunk

  • /ɡʌŋk/

Rhymes with -ʌŋk

Where it comes from

Apparently from Gunk, trademark name for a liquid soap; perhaps taken as a blend of grime + funk.

noun gunks

  1. informal, uncountable Grime, dirt, slime; any vague, messy, or unknown substance. I washed all the gunk off the light fixture, and found that it was white, not brown.

    Similar: goo, goop, grime, gunge, muck

  2. uncountable A subculture of 21st century American males, combining elements of modern gothic culture with punk rock.
  3. countable, uncountable An entity with no atomic parts; infinitely divisible.
  4. countable A member of the gunk subculture.

verb gunks · gunking · gunked

  1. To soil or make dirty.

    Similar: befoul, muck, slur, assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befile, befilth, begrime

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noun dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance

Españolporquería, mugre, pringue, tizne, cochambre, suciedad
Portuguêssujeira
Françaissaleté
DeutschDreck, Schleim, Schmiere, Schmodder, Schmutz
Italianosudiciume
Русскийгрязь grjazʹ

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"gunk." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/gunk.

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@misc{gunk_2026,
  title = {gunk},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gunk},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}