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Definition of gunge in English: gungenoun ɡʌn(d)ʒɡəndʒ mass nounBritish informal An unpleasantly sticky or viscous substance. Example sentencesExamples - I'm as guilty of gunge in the keyboard as the next person (the first laptop was a prime victim of it, I have to say) but all the same, yuck.
- I had spent all my money caving in France over the summer and was trying to live on porridge, potatoes and some sort of powdered gunge that was supposed to provide all of the body's nutritional requirements when mixed with water.
- This gunge makes your skin feel as if it has been swathed in silk.
- Not only do the have a tube that look like an artery from which they squeeze some disgusting, off-white fatty gunge but it also has shots of various people smoking and the same gunge is dripping out of the end of the cigarettes.
- You put bland milk in one end and gunge from the gates of hell erupts from the other.
- The Royal Society of Chemistry yesterday launched a search for the most spectacular growth of green gunge to be found in a forgotten mug at work.
- The mechanism by which this cargo of gunge will be released is as crudely sensitive as it is simple.
- An hour later, the repairman had consumed half a cup of tea, thoroughly cleaned the accumulated gunge off the various components of the system and replaced our thermostat.
- Concentration is adversely affected by smoking with the gradual blocking up of the arteries and veins with gunge from cigarettes that starve the brain of oxygen.
- The lips are painted over and over as tons of the red gunge dissolves, is eaten, licked off, absorbed.
- The glass oven door was splattered with a mass of yellow and white gunge mixed with pulverised eggshells.
- As she bent down awkwardly in a hopeless endeavor to retrieve them, her glasses and purse also disappeared into the watery gunge below.
- Tonnes of gunge has been cleared from the drainage system so that the rainwater that is very much part of Greenock life can seep away, and the home improvements are continuing.
- His show - in which celebrities were humiliated by Blobby or doused in gunge - was a Saturday night staple until it was given the push in 1999 when viewers began to desert.
- Three teachers from a Shepperton school were covered in green gunge last week, to raise money for a children's charity.
- A small silence ensued, punctuated by the less than pleasant sound of gloop and gunge bubbling through poor Graham's sinuses.
- I'd just spent fifteen minutes stripping all the meat left over on the chicken carcass I'd roasted for our dinner yesterday in preparation for a top-crust chicken and mushroom pie for today and my hands were dripping with grease and gunge.
- So, I made coffee, and Graham dismantled the vacuum cleaner, clearing out all the hidden fluff and gunge that some fifteen years of faithful service hides away in such devices.
- My nose running, my sinuses churning out gunge.
- Condenser boilers are more sensitive than older traditional boilers to sediment and general gunge flowing around the central heating system.
Synonyms dirt, muck, grime, mud, mire, sludge, slime, ooze, foul matter
verbgungeing, gunges, gungedɡʌn(d)ʒɡəndʒ [with object]gunge something upBritish informal Clog or obstruct something with gunge. Example sentencesExamples - His own company had to come back and bleed the radiators after the new pump was put in, because the sheer power of it shifted old limescale et al and gunged the system up.
Synonyms block, block up, clog, clog up, get in the way of, stand in the way of, cut off, shut off, jam, bung up, gum up, choke, barricade, bar, dam up
Derivatives adjectivegungier, gungiest ˈɡʌn(d)ʒiˈɡəndʒi British informal I drew the line at eating the gungy green substance known as tomalley, which is in fact, lobster liver, considered by many to be a great delicacy. Example sentencesExamples - The walls are actually painted a light terracotta but the lab has made them resemble yesterday's mustard, all dry and gungy and beginning to turn green.
- But you better do something with it, otherwise it'll probably go all gungy.
- Mr Murray, and his wife Doris, 62, said they were left with ‘nothing but a gungy swimming pool’ at the back of his home.
- Was Galloway's permanent rage going to be banked by a great gungy outpouring of slavering goodwill?
Origin 1960s: perhaps suggested by goo and gunk. Rhymes blunge, expunge, grunge, lunge, plunge, scunge, sponge Definition of gunge in US English: gungenounɡənjɡəndʒ British informal A sticky, viscous, and unpleasantly messy material. Example sentencesExamples - A small silence ensued, punctuated by the less than pleasant sound of gloop and gunge bubbling through poor Graham's sinuses.
- The lips are painted over and over as tons of the red gunge dissolves, is eaten, licked off, absorbed.
- My nose running, my sinuses churning out gunge.
- An hour later, the repairman had consumed half a cup of tea, thoroughly cleaned the accumulated gunge off the various components of the system and replaced our thermostat.
- The Royal Society of Chemistry yesterday launched a search for the most spectacular growth of green gunge to be found in a forgotten mug at work.
- Not only do the have a tube that look like an artery from which they squeeze some disgusting, off-white fatty gunge but it also has shots of various people smoking and the same gunge is dripping out of the end of the cigarettes.
- I'm as guilty of gunge in the keyboard as the next person (the first laptop was a prime victim of it, I have to say) but all the same, yuck.
- I'd just spent fifteen minutes stripping all the meat left over on the chicken carcass I'd roasted for our dinner yesterday in preparation for a top-crust chicken and mushroom pie for today and my hands were dripping with grease and gunge.
- As she bent down awkwardly in a hopeless endeavor to retrieve them, her glasses and purse also disappeared into the watery gunge below.
- Condenser boilers are more sensitive than older traditional boilers to sediment and general gunge flowing around the central heating system.
- I had spent all my money caving in France over the summer and was trying to live on porridge, potatoes and some sort of powdered gunge that was supposed to provide all of the body's nutritional requirements when mixed with water.
- His show - in which celebrities were humiliated by Blobby or doused in gunge - was a Saturday night staple until it was given the push in 1999 when viewers began to desert.
- So, I made coffee, and Graham dismantled the vacuum cleaner, clearing out all the hidden fluff and gunge that some fifteen years of faithful service hides away in such devices.
- Concentration is adversely affected by smoking with the gradual blocking up of the arteries and veins with gunge from cigarettes that starve the brain of oxygen.
- The glass oven door was splattered with a mass of yellow and white gunge mixed with pulverised eggshells.
- Tonnes of gunge has been cleared from the drainage system so that the rainwater that is very much part of Greenock life can seep away, and the home improvements are continuing.
- The mechanism by which this cargo of gunge will be released is as crudely sensitive as it is simple.
- You put bland milk in one end and gunge from the gates of hell erupts from the other.
- Three teachers from a Shepperton school were covered in green gunge last week, to raise money for a children's charity.
- This gunge makes your skin feel as if it has been swathed in silk.
Synonyms dirt, muck, grime, mud, mire, sludge, slime, ooze, foul matter
verbɡənjɡəndʒ [with object]gunge something upBritish informal Clog or obstruct something with gunge. Example sentencesExamples - His own company had to come back and bleed the radiators after the new pump was put in, because the sheer power of it shifted old limescale et al and gunged the system up.
Synonyms block, block up, clog, clog up, get in the way of, stand in the way of, cut off, shut off, jam, bung up, gum up, choke, barricade, bar, dam up
Origin 1960s: perhaps suggested by goo and gunk. |