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# gunk

«gunk» in Mova's school dictionary: **Any thick, sticky, dirty or slimy stuff that you do not…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (gunk — uncountable, informal)

### meaning for a pupil

(informal) Any thick, sticky, dirty or slimy stuff that you do not want, such as grease in a drain or goo on a shoe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gunk/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and funny stories about cleaning and mess. Phrases: full of gunk, clean the gunk out, gunk up (to block with gunk).

### examples

- The plughole was full of gunk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gunk/#x1)
- What's this green gunk on my shoe? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gunk/#x2)
- Dad cleaned the gunk out of the bike chain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gunk/#x3)
- The pond was covered in slimy gunk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gunk/#x4)
- Old food gunked up the sink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gunk/#x5)
- Wipe the gunk off the keyboard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gunk/#x6)

### note

Informal and uncountable: some gunk, not a gunk. Adjective: gunky. Similar informal words: goo, gloop, muck.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gunk» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gunk/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.