gook1
/ɡuːk
/ /ɡʊk /noun North American informal, offensive
A foreigner, especially a person of SE Asian descent.
Origin
1930s: of unknown origin.
Rhymes
gook2
/ɡuːk/ /ɡʊk /noun [mass noun] informal
A sloppy wet or viscous substance: all that gook she kept putting on her face...
- Indeed, for a pinkish, processed, canned luncheon meat surrounded in gelatinous gook, Spam has quite an amazing story to tell - and a uniquely American one at that.
- I was almost shocked, for instance, at the simple perfection of the Clams Casino - a New York-like first course that often is miserably laden with breadcrumb-cheese gook and baked into submission.
- He'd only seen the makeup kit briefly, when Tanner took out some white, gloppy gook to take off the makeup that covered nearly his entire body.
Origin
1970s: variant of guck.
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- autositic
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- autosomal recessive
- autosome
- autosoteric
- autosoterism
- autostabilisation
- autostabiliser
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- autostereogram
- autostereoscopic
- autostereoscopy
- auto-stop
- autostop
- autostrada
- autostylic
- autosuggest