gunk
/ɡʌŋk
/noun [mass noun] informal
An unpleasantly sticky or messy substance: factories spewing out unspeakable gunk...
- After that, you just mix the pineapple gunk with the sugar syrup, the milk and lemon juice and put in the fridge.
- It had a tendency to mix with clay-rich mud to form a gooey, sticky gunk that adhered to everything.
- Comets are in effect dirty snowballs, water ice coated in organic gunk.
Origin
1930s (originally US): the proprietary name of a detergent.
This was originally a US usage and came from the proprietary name of a detergent.
Rhymes
- rake and scrape
- rake-comb
- rakehell
- rakehellish
- rakehelly
- rakeless
- rake-off
- rake over (old) coals (or rake over the ashes)
- raker
- rakery
- rakeshame
- rake shank
- rake something in
- rake something up/over
- rake's progress
- rake staff
- rake-up
- rake wheel
- rakhi
- Rakhmaninovian
- raki
- rakia
- rakija
- raking arch
- raking bond