The pool tile was disgusting looking, being full of gunk.
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Gunk
//ɡʌŋk//
Synonyms for "gunk" (137 found)
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Translations
28 translations across 13 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- лепкав отпадък noun (dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance)
Czech
1 entries- sajrajt noun (dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance)
Finnish
2 entries- moska noun (dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance)
- töhnä noun (dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance)
French
1 entries- saleté noun (dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance)
German
4 entries- Dreck noun (dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance)
- Schleim noun (dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance)
- Schmiere noun (dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance)
- Schmodder noun (dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance)
Italian
1 entries- sudiciume noun (dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- guffe noun (dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance)
- smørje noun (dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance)
Portuguese
1 entries- sujeira noun (dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance)
Russian
1 entries- грязь noun (dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance)
Spanish
4 entries- cochambre noun (dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance)
- mugre noun (dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance)
- porquería noun (dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance)
- pringue noun (dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance)
Swedish
3 entries- gegga noun (dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance)
- kladd noun (dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance)
- smörja noun (dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance)
Turkish
3 entries- balgam noun (dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance)
- pislik noun (dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance)
- yağlı/yapışkan madde noun (dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance)
Ukrainian
1 entries- бруд noun (dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
The older I get, the more regularly I wake up with gunk in the corners of my eyelids.
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My eyes are full of eye gunk.
Source: tatoeba (13320270)
I washed all the gunk off the light fixture, and found that it was white, not brown.
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