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Junk
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 1 Miscellaneous items of little value, especially discarded or unwanted items. uncountable, usually
"This shed is full of junk – will you help me sort it out?"
- 2 A Chinese sailing vessel.
- 3 any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails wordnet
- 4 Material or resources of poor quality or low value, especially resources that lack commercial value. attributive, uncountable, usually
"junk food"
- 5 the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up wordnet
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- 6 Nonsense; gibberish. uncountable, usually
"The student put down junk for answers just to finish his homework more quickly."
- 7 Any narcotic drug, especially heroin. slang, uncountable, usually
"The poor fellow took so much junk into his system he could only weather the greater proportion of his day in that chair with the lamp burning at noon, but in the morning he was magnificent."
- 8 The genitalia, especially of a male. slang, uncountable, usually
"I'm talking about everybody getting crunk, crunk / Boys tryin' to touch my junk, junk / Gonna smack him if he getting too drunk, drunk"
- 9 Salt beef. uncountable, usually
"My physician has ordered me three pounds of minced salt-junk at every meal ."
- 10 Pieces of old cable or cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships. uncountable, usually
- 11 A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk. countable, dated, usually
"Dear Uncle Sam pervides fer his, An' gives a good-sized junk to all"
- 1 To throw away. informal, transitive
- 2 dispose of (something useless or old) wordnet
- 3 To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junkshop) informal, transitive
"(On Facebook, a record collector wrote:) "The newest addition to my Annette Hanshaw collection, I junked this beautiful flawless E-copy within walking distance from my house.""
- 4 To consume junk food, mainly at a fast-food restaurant. informal, intransitive, transitive
"Let's just junk some burgers at McDonald's."
Etymology
From earlier meaning "old refuse from boats and ships", from Middle English junk, jounke, jonk, joynk (“an old cable or rope”, nautical term), sometimes cut into bits and used as caulking; of uncertain origin; perhaps related to join, joint, juncture. Often compared to Middle English junk, jonk, jonke, junck (“a rush; basket made of rushes”), from Old French jonc, from Latin iuncus (“rush, reed”); however, the Oxford English Dictionary finds "no evidence of connexion".
From earlier meaning "old refuse from boats and ships", from Middle English junk, jounke, jonk, joynk (“an old cable or rope”, nautical term), sometimes cut into bits and used as caulking; of uncertain origin; perhaps related to join, joint, juncture. Often compared to Middle English junk, jonk, jonke, junck (“a rush; basket made of rushes”), from Old French jonc, from Latin iuncus (“rush, reed”); however, the Oxford English Dictionary finds "no evidence of connexion".
From Portuguese junco with reinforcement from Dutch jonk, from Arabic جُنْك (junk), from Malay jong, جوڠ, from Javanese ꦗꦺꦴꦁ (jong), from Old Javanese joṅ (“seagoing ship”), probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *d₂luuŋ ~ *d₂luŋ ~ *d₂luəŋ ~ *d₂ləŋ (“boat”). Doublet of djong.
South German surname, spelling variant of Jung.
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