different between gunge vs gurge

English

Etymology 1

See gong.

Noun

gunge (plural gunges)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of gong: an outhouse.

Etymology 2

First attested around 1935-40. Probably an alteration of gunk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nd??/

Noun

gunge (usually uncountable, plural gunges)

1. (Britain) A viscous or sticky substance, particularly an unpleasant one of vague or unknown composition; goo; gunk.
   • 1978, A. S. Byatt, The Virgin in The Garden, Vintage International 1992, p.390:

     Have I got trails of gunge on these frills?

2. (organic chemistry, informal) Tholin.
   • 11 January 1979, Dr Bernard Dixon (editor), "Grains between the stars account for spectra", in New Scientist:

     They call this solid material tholin (after the Greek word for muddy), but it seems likely that chemists will continue to call this rather familiar material “'gunge.”

Derived terms

• gungey/gungy

Verb

gunge (third-person singular simple present gunges, present participle gunging, simple past and past participle gunged)

1. (often with "up") To clog with gunge.
2. (Britain) To cover with gunge.

Synonyms

• goo
• goop
• grunge
• gunk
• slime

Anagrams

• Geung

Albanian

Noun

gunge

1. indefinite genitive/dative/ablative singular of gungë

Middle English

Adjective

gunge

1. Alternative form of yong

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian gunga or g?n, which derives from Proto-Germanic *gangan? (“to go, walk, step”).

Verb

gunge

1. (Mooring) to go

Conjugation

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian gunga, ganga, from Proto-Germanic *gangan?. More at English gang.

Verb

gunge

1. to go

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)d?

Etymology 1

See gorge.

Verb

gurge (third-person singular simple present gurges, present participle gurging, simple past and past participle gurged)

1. (obsolete) To swallow up.

Etymology 2

From Latin gurges.

Noun

gurge (plural gurges)

1. (obsolete) A whirlpool.
   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 12, lines 41-42,^[1]

     The plain, wherein a black bituminous gurge

     Boils out from under ground […]

Anagrams

• Ugger, ugger

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gurges.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ur.d??e/
• Hyphenation: gùr?ge

Noun

gurge f (plural gurgi)

1. (poetic) whirlpool, vortex

   Synonyms: gorgo, (poetic) gurgite

Related terms

• gorgo
• gurgite
• ingurgitare

References

• gurge in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana