different between junk vs trunk

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: j?ngk, IPA^(key): /d???k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

From Middle English junke (“old cable, rope”), probably from Old French jonc (“rush”), from Latin iuncus (“rush”). Doublet of junco and juncus.

Noun

junk (uncountable)

1. Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash, garbage.
2. A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
3. (slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
   • 1961, William S. Burroughs, The Soft Machine, page 7

     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.

4. (slang) The genitalia, especially a man’s.
   • 2009, Kesha, Tik Tok

     I'm talking about everybody getting crunk, crunk

     Boys tryin' to touch my junk, junk

     Gonna smack him if he getting too drunk, drunk

5. (nautical) Salt beef.
   • c. 1851-1852, James Russell Lowell, Leaves from My Journal in Italy and Elsewhere

     My physician has ordered me three pounds of minced salt-junk at every meal .

6. 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.
7. (dated) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
   • 1846-1848, James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers

     Dear Uncle Sam pervides fer his,
     An' gives a good-sized junk to all

8. (attributive) Material or resources of a kind lacking commercial value.

9. Nonsense; gibberish

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:trash
• Thesaurus:cameltoe
• Thesaurus:male crotch bulge

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

junk (third-person singular simple present junks, present participle junking, simple past and past participle junked)

1. (transitive, informal) To throw away.
2. (transitive, informal) To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junkshop)

Synonyms

• (throw away): bin, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, discard, dispose of, ditch, dump, scrap, throw away, throw out, toss, trash
• See also Thesaurus:junk

Translations

Etymology 2

From Portuguese junco or Dutch jonk (or reinforced), from Malay or Javanese djong, variant of djung, from Old Javanese jong (“seagoing ship”), ultimately from Chinese.

Noun

junk (plural junks)

2. (nautical) A Chinese sailing vessel.

Translations

References

Bavarian

Etymology

From Middle High German junc, from Old High German jung.

Adjective

junk

1. (Sappada) young

References

• “junk” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• djung, jung, jungh

Etymology

From Middle High German junc, from Old High German jung.

Adjective

junk

1. (Tredici Comuni) young

References

• “junk” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian diunk, from Proto-Germanic *dinkwaz, variant of *dankwaz (“dark”). Compare with German dunkel.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /j??k/

Adjective

junk

1. (Sylt) dark

Plautdietsch

Etymology

From Middle Low German and Old Saxon jung

Adjective

junk (comparative jinja)

1. young

English

Etymology

From Middle English tronke, trunke, borrowed from Old French tronc (“alms box, tree trunk, headless body”), from Latin truncus (“a stock, lopped tree trunk”), from truncus (“cut off, maimed, mutilated”). For the verb, compare French tronquer, and see truncate. Doublet of truncus and tronk.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t???k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t???k/, [t?????k], [t???k]
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

trunk (plural trunks)

1. (heading, biological) Part of a body.
   1. The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches: the tree trunk.
   2. The torso.
   3. The conspicuously extended, mobile, nose-like organ of an animal such as a sengi, a tapir or especially an elephant. The trunks of various kinds of animals might be adapted to probing and sniffing, as in the sengis, or be partly prehensile, as in the tapir, or be a versatile prehensile organ for manipulation, feeding, drinking and fighting as in the elephant.
2. (heading) A container.
   1. A large suitcase, chest, or similar receptacle for carrying or storing personal possessions, usually with a hinged, often domed lid, and handles at each end, so that generally it takes two persons to carry a full trunk.

      • There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors.

   2. A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for holding or transporting clothes or other goods.
   3. (US, Canada, automotive) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car; a boot
3. (heading) A channel for flow of some kind.
   1. (US, telecommunications) A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.
   2. A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.
   3. A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc.
   4. (archaic) A long tube through which pellets of clay, peas, etc., are driven by the force of the breath. A peashooter
      • 13 March, 1623, James Howell, "To the Lord Viscount Col. from Madrid" in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ

        He shot Sugar Plums at them out of a Trunk.

   5. (mining) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
4. (software engineering) In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.
5. The main line or body of anything.
   1. (transport) A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.
   2. (architecture) The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
6. A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.
7. (in the plural) Short for swimming trunks.

Synonyms

• (luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car): boot (UK, Aus), dicky (India)
• (upright part of a tree): tree trunk
• (nose of an elephant): proboscis

Hyponyms

• (a large suitcase; a chest for holding goods): footlocker

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• trunk in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• trunk in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Verb

trunk (third-person singular simple present trunks, present participle trunking, simple past and past participle trunked)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.
2. (transitive, mining) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.
3. (telecommunications) To provide simultaneous network access to multiple clients by sharing a set of circuits, carriers, channels, or frequencies.

Anagrams

• K-turn