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Meanings of gook in English
(Slang) a disparaging term for an Asian person (especially for North Vietnamese soldiers in the Vietnam War)
Synonyms
Examples for "muck"
Examples for "muck"
1
I went from playing muck-around-footie to training intensely six days a week.
2
The veriest muck-worm in the market-place spat out at sight of him.
3
They are the mushroom growth of the muck-heap of the new civilization.
4
The political boss is not the unscrupulous ogre that the muck-rakers picture.
5
That they travel a great distance to gather a hot brown muck.
1
Detractors had been hurling slime since the moment the president took office.
2
The river has only black depths where one rots in the slime.
3
The river monsters along the river's marge lay dormant in the slime.
4
Hagfish are also known as slime eels, thought they are not eels.
5
In fact that slime ball made Wallace look like Martin Luther King.
1
At least I could hear again; Gretchen's purple goo had worked well.
2
It had the best puzzles, the best lines, you had the goo.
3
But the toxic goo is also a hallucinogen, albeit a dangerous one.
4
Within minutes, it was nothing more than a pool of greenish goo.
5
Brown goo dribbled out of this new appendage in a constant stream.
1
Also written ooze, Mrs Quirk's word is still common in rural Scotland.
2
The icy waters, the ooze and mud of the river seemed preferable.
3
Mr Livingstone's statements and unapologetic stances ooze contempt for the Jewish community.
4
Though the ooze was soft the bird did not sink into it.
5
My fist sank through the shell; a cold, sticky ooze spurted out.
1
Moreover, different hydrogenotrophic methanogens were found specifically to the different sludge sources.
2
Investment banks in particular look eager to scoop up the mortgage sludge.
3
Given the choice between toxic mud and sand, they picked the sludge.
4
Treated sludge is often stored in ponds where the water eventually evaporates.
5
But war zones are only one application for the bacteria-based sludge removers.
1
Overall, however, this yo-yos between bland and big mouthfuls of unpalatable gunk.
2
You look at this and it is just the most unappetising gunk.
3
The green gunk was pushing up near the top of the bucket.
4
The first thing he pulled out was a lump of white gunk.
5
Nice foliage, lovely wildlife, great poetry etc, pity about the gunk.
1
So fill up some paintballs with bomb-detecting goop and fire away, right?
2
Clarence examined the green goop falling in clumps and nodded his approval.
3
In the towers, the heavy bottoms would cake up into solid goop.
4
Aloe barbadensis A fancy name for the goop inside an aloe leaf.
5
She smeared the Icy Hot goop from her hand onto his.
1
And then you're stuck down inside all that guck, and it's awful.
2
My palm had a huge red welt, oozing and smoking with yellow guck.
3
She thought of the green guck with a shudder.
4
I made a sound like "Guck," and made myself close my eyes tight.
5
Picture the cavemen, he'd say, firing away, and the tyrannosauruses all gucked up in the oil puddles.
Usage of gook in English
1
Fury's talk of gook ears and land mines had brought it on.
2
It's a good thing I kind of understand the technical gobbledy- gook.
3
He looked at the bowl of meatball gook and scratched his head.
4
Your fuel filter was full of gook from a filthy gas tank.
5
Cornelius had just caught a whiff of gook Camels, those bitter NVA cigarettes.
6
Like pictures you see of those gook kids over in Nam.
7
But, say, what sort of a gook is this gink, anyway?
8
The gook in between the two boards will take most of the water pressure.
9
Are you a lazy shiftless watermelon-eating black-ass nigger, or a sneaky little v.d.-infected gook?
10
I ain't gotta clue what happened to that gook kid.
11
That gook kid was just laying there, real still.
12
After gloving, he spent an eternity removing the white gook with a small plastic scraper.
13
You hand me a bunch of marketing gobbedly gook.
14
And suddenly the next best thing to forty demonic thugs collapsed into splatters of transparent gook.
15
Fucking little gook bitch, we let her into this country and this is how she acts.
16
There's a lady c'ming right up in a taxi fr'm th' Astorbilt to identify this gook.
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