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schlock
English
Alternative forms
- shlock
Etymology
From Yiddish ?????? (shlak), related to German Schlacke/Schlag.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?l?k/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?l?k/
Noun
schlock (countable and uncountable, plural schlocks)
- Commodity that is shoddy or inferior.
Derived terms
Translations
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junk
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)
- Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash, garbage.
- A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
- (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.
- 1961, William S. Burroughs, The Soft Machine, page 7
- (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
- 2009, Kesha, Tik Tok
- (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 .
- c. 1851-1852, James Russell Lowell, Leaves from My Journal in Italy and Elsewhere
- 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.
- (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
- Dear Uncle Sam pervides fer his,
- 1846-1848, James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers
- (attributive) Material or resources of a kind lacking commercial value.
- 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)
- (transitive, informal) To throw away.
- (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)
- (nautical) A Chinese sailing vessel.
Translations
References
Bavarian
Etymology
From Middle High German junc, from Old High German jung.
Adjective
junk
- (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
- (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
- (Sylt) dark
Plautdietsch
Etymology
From Middle Low German and Old Saxon jung
Adjective
junk (comparative jinja)
- young
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