English Explanatory Dictionary

junk

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Miscellaneous items of little value, especially discarded or unwanted items.
  2. Material or resources of poor quality or low value, especially resources that lack commercial value.
  3. Nonsense; gibberish.
  4. Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
  5. The genitalia, especially of a male.
  6. Salt beef.
  7. 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.
  8. A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
verb
  1. To throw away.
  2. To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junkshop)
  3. To consume junk food, mainly at a fast-food restaurant.
noun
  1. A Chinese sailing vessel.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/d͡ʒʌŋk/ /d͡ʒɐŋk/ en-au-junk.ogg

Word forms

junk junks junking junked

Etymology

From earlier meaning "old refuse from boats and ships", from Middle English junk, jounke, jonk, joynk (“an old cable or rope”, nautical term), sometimes cut into bits and used as caulking; of uncertain origin; perhaps related to join, joint, juncture. Often compared to Middle English junk, jonk, jonke, junck (“a rush; basket made of rushes”), from Old French jonc, from Latin iuncus (“rush, reed”); however, the Oxford English Dictionary finds "no evidence of connexion".

Synonyms

clutter cultch crap debris dreck drek garbage gash junk litter pelf piece of crap piece of garbage piece of shit pile of crap pile of shit piece of trash rubbish refuse roughage service item shit stuff trash waste anaconda baloney pony bald-headed hermit banana birdie bobby boonga cack choad choda chode chopper cigar cock corey crank cucumber custard launcher D dick dicklet diddle diddly dingaling ding-a-ling ding-dong dinger dingle dingus dingy dink dinkle dipstick dirk disco stick

Related words

nonsense old car genitalia

Derived words

antijunk chartjunk cyberjunk dejunk hunk of junk Jesus junk junkaholic junkball junk beverage junkboard junk bond junk bottle junkbox junk conference junk DNA junk drawer junk drink junk email junker junk fee junk food junk food news junk gun junkhead junk head junkheap junk-hook junkie junky junk in one's trunk junk in the trunk junk job junkless junklike junk mail junk mailer junkman junkmobile junk news junkpile junk rig junk ring junkroom junkscape junk science junkshop junk shop junk shot junk sick junk-sick junk sickness junkspace junk sport junk time junk title junk vat junk wad junkware junkyard nonjunk
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