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How to pronounce gunk in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms goo, gook, goop, guck, muck, ooze, slime, sludge
Type of matter
Has types sapropel

Examples of gunk

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Let it sit overnight, and then scrape out the gunk with a nonscratching spatula.
From the kentucky.com
You get claustrophobic and you have to wear all of this gunk all over your body.
From the sacbee.com
Once despised as invasive and relentless, the mussels also filtered out the gunk.
From the post-gazette.com
It cleans burned-on gunk easily, and it scrubs about anything you can think of.
From the sacbee.com
They gunk things up with flashbacks, and the ghost of Rex hovers over everything.
From the omaha.com
I'd just as soon stomp them all, but that's a lot of gunk to scrape off my shoes.
From the washingtonpost.com
You find a lot of smelly gunk, and almost never uncover anything of real value.
From the omaha.com
Denver even deployed a specialized vacuum truck to suck gunk out of the drains.
From the denverpost.com
You just drag out the plastic and all the river gunk on top of it, Tommy said.
From the latimes.com
More examples
  • Sludge: any thick, viscous matter
  • In mereology, an area of philosophical logic, the term gunk applies to any whole whose parts all have further proper parts. That is, a gunky object is not made of indivisible atoms. In contrast, an atomic individual is entirely decomposable into atoms.
  • (The Gunks) The Shawangunk Ridge, also known as the Shawangunk Mountains or The Gunks, is a ridge of bedrock in Ulster County, Sullivan County and Orange County in the state of New York, extending from the northernmost point of New Jersey to the Catskill Mountains.
  • Dirt or grime; any vague or unknown substance; A subculture of 21st century American males, combining elements of modern gothic culture with punk rock; A member of the gunk subculture
  • Slang term for mucus.