junk
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
nautical
philosophy
sciences
transport
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".
Inflected forms:
form: junks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: junks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: junking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: junked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: junked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Miscellaneous items of little value, especially discarded or unwanted items.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: This shed is full of junk – will you help me sort it out?
She needs to find a better place to keep her junk [= belongings].
What a piece of junk!
In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.
gloss: Material or resources of poor quality or low value, especially resources that lack commercial value.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
uncountable
usually
examples: junk food
junk fish; junk trees
gloss: Nonsense; gibberish.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The student put down junk for answers just to finish his homework more quickly.
gloss: Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
usually
examples: 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.
Trace a line of goose pimples up the thin young arm. Slide the needle in and push the bulb watching the junk hit him all over. Move right in with the shit and suck junk through all the hungry young cells.
Ah love nothing (except junk), ah hate nothing (except forces that prevent me getting any) and ah fear nothing (except not scoring).
gloss: The genitalia, especially of a male.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
usually
examples: I'm talking about everybody getting crunk, crunk / Boys tryin' to touch my junk, junk / Gonna smack him if he getting too drunk, drunk
But what to do about a kid who flashes his privates at your child? And worse, how do you make sure your kid does not reciprocate? That's exactly the dilemma one mom faced when she learned that her 5-year-old neighbor had flashed his "junk" at her two sons and then made them swear not to tell.
Got a spot on the voice, I'm a neo punk / Old ladies cum when I flash my junk
gloss: Salt beef.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: My physician has ordered me three pounds of minced salt-junk at every meal .
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
usually
examples: Dear Uncle Sam pervides fer his,
An' gives a good-sized junk to all
Then he lay quiet for a little, and then, pulling out a stick of tobacco, begged me to cut him a quid.
“Cut me a junk o’ that,” says he, “for I haven’t no knife and hardly strength enough, so be as I had. […]”
gloss: An entity with no whole; every part is itself a proper part of something larger.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: To throw away.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
gloss: To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junkshop)
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: (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."
gloss: To consume junk food, mainly at a fast-food restaurant.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
transitive
examples: Let's just junk some burgers at McDonald's.
Let me go junking to KFC with you.
Synonyms: junk
86
can
cast aside
cast off
cast away
get rid of
jettison
pitch
shift
throw aside
Related words: nonsense
old car
genitalia
Derived words: antijunk
chartjunk
cyberjunk
dejunk
hunk of junk
Jesus junk
junkaholic
junkball
junk beverage
junkboard
junk bond
junk bottle
junkbox
junk conference
junk DNA
junk drawer
junk drink
junk email
junker
junk fee
junk food
junk food news
junk gun
junkhead
junk head
junkheap
junk-hook
junkie
junky
junk in one's trunk
junk in the trunk
junk job
junkless
junklike
junk mail
junk mailer
junkman
junkmobile
junk news
junkpile
junk rig
junk ring
junkroom
junkscape
junk science
junkshop
junk shop
junk shot
junk sick
junk-sick
junk sickness
junkspace
Junkspace
junk sport
junk time
junk title
junk vat
junk wad
junkware
junkyard
nonjunk
piece of junk
salt junk
space junk
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