1776 Trial Maha Rajah Nundocomar for Forgery 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.

1794 E. Burke Speech against W. Hastings in Wks. (1827) XV. 365 By employing military men..as masters of markets and of gunges.

1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Misc. Tracts 290/1 The town of Bopaul is extensive... On the outside is a large gunge, with streets wide and straight.

1848 J. H. Stocqueler Oriental Interpreter Gunjes, grain-markets.

1969 Sunday 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.

1970 E. Partridge 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.)

1973 Amateur 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].

1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 May 547/1 Handed down like the recipe for some regional gunge from one bad cook to the next.

1979 New 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’.

1985 Listener 30 May 37/1 Adam and Eve emerge from a transportable saucer of murky gunge.

1976 T. Nichols & P. Armstrong Workers Divided i. 68 They could be involved in very heavy physical work when, inevitably, this particular plant ‘gunged up’.

1977 Sounds 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.