gook

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (1)  · 
“
Unlike the way the Hmong were portrayed in the movie, I wouldn't laugh at being called a gook or a chink or a zipperhead.

View all »
Definitions (4)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (2)

  1. noun Variant of guck.
  2. noun Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a person of East Asian birth or descent.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (2)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (47)

  • Nearly all the experts said that it was not gobbledy-gook, that it had the rhythm and flow of a real language. —  AnalogSFF,April2008
  • You're not killing   a man; you're killing a "gook," a Viet Cong. —  TEDBUNDY
  • On WordPress, I'll add it to the post title, but then strip out the goobly-gook code in the post title code below the actual post title before I publish it. —  Paula Mooney's Tips - Get blog readers and make money online...
  • "It's a bunch of numbers; it seems like a bunch of gobblety-gook," Sims said. —  Wi-Fi Networking News
  • Unlike the way the Hmong were portrayed in the movie, I wouldn't laugh at being called a gook or a chink or a zipperhead. —  Mary's Madness
More examples »
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 89 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (1)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Perhaps alteration of earlier goo-goo, native inhabitant of the Philippines, Pacific islander.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
by American Heritage
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about once a year.

Recently looked up

hostium · wolf · skein · squandered · ochre

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

embodies · silence · spell it rite · britney · bunda