junk

English

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Pronunciation

• enPR: jŭngk, IPA: /dʒʌŋk/, X-SAMPA: /dZVNk/
• Rhymes: -ʌŋk

Etymology 1

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

A box full of junk (2)

Noun

junk (uncountable)

1. Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash.
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) Genitalia.
   • 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.

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:trash

Derived terms

junk bond junk DNA junk food junkie

junk mail junk room junk science junkyard

Translations

rubbish, waste

• Danish: bras (da), ragelse (da), affald (da)
• Dutch: rommel (nl) m, rotzooi (nl) m, afval (nl) n, brol (nl) m (Flemish)
• Estonian: prügi (et), jäätmed (et), praht (et)
• Finnish: romu (fi), roska (fi), jäte (fi)
• French: ordure (fr), déchets (fr)
• Georgian: ნაგავი (ka) (nagavi)
• German: Müll (de) m, Abfall (de) m
• Greek: σκουπίδια (el) (skoupídia) pl
• Hungarian: lom (hu)
• Icelandic: rusl (is) n, drasl (is) n

• Italian: immondizia (it) f, rifiuti (it), spazzatura (it) f
• Polish: śmieci (pl) pl
• Portuguese: lixo (pt) m
• Russian: хлам (ru) (xlam) m, скрап (ru) (skrap) m, мусор (ru) (músor) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: отпад (sh) m, олупина (sh) f

  Roman: otpad (sh) m, olupina (sh) f

• Spanish: basura (es) f
• Swedish: skräp (sv) n

miscellaneous items of little value

• Finnish: roina (fi), kama (fi)
• German: Kram (de) m, Kleinkruscht (de) m, Ramsch (de) m, Krempel (de) m
• Icelandic: drasl (is) n
• Italian: paccottaglia (it), ciarpame (it) m, cianfrusaglie (it)
• Navajo: inchxǫ́ʼį́

• Russian: барахло (ru) (baraxló) n, хлам (ru) (xlam) m, рухлядь (ru) (rúxljadʹ) f
• Spanish: cachivache (es) m, trasto (es) m, cachureo (es) m (Chile), calache (es) m (Nicaragua), chéchere (es) m (Colombia, Panama, Western Venezuela), chunche (es) m (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua), coroto (es) m (Venezuela), tiliche (es) m (Mexico) (often used in pl)

narcotic drug

• Dutch: spul (nl) n, gerief (nl) n
• Finnish: kama (fi)

• German: Stoff (de) m
• Greek: ναρκωτικό (el) (narkotikó) n, (slang) πρέζα (el) (préza) f

slang: genitalia

• German: Eier (de) f, Krempel (de) m, Nüsse (de) f, Klöten (de) f

• Russian: муде (ru) (mudé) n

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To throw away.

Synonyms

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

Translations

throw away

• Danish: kassere (da), smide ud (da)
• Dutch: weggooien (nl), wegwerpen (nl), wegsmijten (nl), dumpen (nl)

• Finnish: romuttaa (fi)
• Italian: rottamare (it)

Etymology 2

From Portuguese junco, from Javanese djong (Malay adjong).

Noun

Wikipedia junk (plural junks)

1. (nautical) A Chinese sailing vessel.

Translations

Chinese sailing vessel

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 中國式帆船, 中国式帆船 (Zhōngguó shì fānchuán)

• Danish: junke (da) c
• Dutch: jonk (nl) f
• Esperanto: ĵonko (eo)
• Finnish: džonkki (fi)
• French: jonque (fr) f
• German: Dschunke (de) f
• Hungarian: dzsunka (hu)

• Icelandic: djúnka (is) f, júnka (is) f
• Navajo: biná'adaałtsózí bitsin naa'eeł
• Russian: джонка (ru) (džónka) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: џонка (sh) f, џунка (sh) f

  Roman: džonka (sh) f, džunka (sh) f

• Spanish: junco (es) m
• Swedish: djonk (sv) c
• Vietnamese: ghe (vi)