junk

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See also: Junk, -junk, and -jünk

English

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Pronunciation

  • enPR: jŭngk, IPA(key): /dʒʌŋk/
  • Audio (AU):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌŋk

Etymology 1

From Middle English junke (“old cable, rope”), probably from Old French jonc (“rush”), from Latin iuncus (“rush”)[1].

A box full of junk (2)

Noun

junk (uncountable)

  1. Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash.
    • 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist‎[1], volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
      In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.
  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.
    • 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.
  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.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Lowell to this entry?)
  8. (attributive) Material or resources of a kind lacking commercial value.
    junk fish; junk trees
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Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To throw away.
  2. (transitive) To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junk shop)
    (On Facebook, a record collector wrote:) "The newest addition to my Annette Hanshaw collection, I junked this beautiful flawless E-copy within walking distance from my house."
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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

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Wikipedia

junk (plural junks)

  2. (nautical) A Chinese sailing vessel.
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References

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “junk”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Bavarian

Etymology

From Middle High German junc, from Old High German jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁n̥ḱós.

Adjective

junk

  1. (Sappada) young

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Cimbrian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle High German junc, from Old High German jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁n̥ḱós.

Adjective

junk

  1. (Tredici Comuni) young

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North Frisian

Etymology

Compare with German dunkel.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /jʊŋk/

Adjective

junk

  1. (Sylt) dark

Plautdietsch

Adjective

junk (comparative jinja)

  1. young
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