Definitions
Etymologies
- (1935-40) Probably an alteration of gunk. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“gunge' has been found in gardens where deer would not be present, also in my county in the East, we have large populations of red deer, but no reports of this substance being found at all.”
“So if another patriarchal newspaper asks me about being absolutely gorgeous, which I am, then I will absolutely scream until I am sick, but I will put up with it, because the only way we can change things in this undemocratic patriarchal society is with gunge and slime and custard.”
How I gunged Mandelson and managed to stay absolutely gorgeous in the process
“Like many ideas of mine it grew and festered in my mind a little like the gunge that you find on refrigerator seals, waiting for the time when it would ripen sufficiently for me to give it life on paper.”
“The clock is ticking for him to find the natural father before Cally adopts the baby and he'sleft mopping up the gunge.”
“If they have problems with porridge gunge glued to the sides, just soak in cold water for an hour orso and it will lift off.”
The Guardian: Food for Fort: Cooking with herbs, tough asparagus and a pan for porridge
“Maybe for the next General Election they could ask Chris Tarrant, Lenny Henry and Sally James to host an election night Tiswas as part of the coverage - putting the studio representatives from each of the main parties in the gunge tank and getting the flan flinger to surprise politicians whilst being interviewed.”
“With regard to these wretched, horrible, bloody lumps of caramel gunge, he had constructed a whole covert, hidden, humiliating world of pretence and lies, sneaking around pharmacies and stores to find his fix, inventing a serious disease for himself to cover an addiction as compelling and overpowering as if it had been heroin that enslaved him.”
“The reunion came and went, but no gunge or itching indicated anything was amiss.”
“Up close they are really interesting and even pretty but most eyes find them to be just slimy gunge that needs to be gotten rid off…And, of course, there are the moss lovers that create their growth with spoiled milk/yogurt.”
“There, the gunge continued to bake until nicely incorporated onto the pan, in a black crust.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gunge’.
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A Glossary of Filth
A compilation of those nitty-gritty yucky terms for substances and situations that we prefer not to encounter. Please folks, keep it clean; avoid the overly offensive ones.
"the terms...schmutz, smegma, muck, snarge, sewerage, mecomium, sewage, sebum, toe jam, pus, sludge, backwash and 130 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1402 more...
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Lees
Items of little or no value that are left behind by physical or biological processes other than passing through an alimentary canal. See also Valse's Leftovers and reesetee's Hogwash! for other tak...
lees, dross, dregs, orts, debris, jetsam, flotsam, rubbage, rubbish, trash, refuse, junk and 130 more...
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Ptolemy's Gate
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's book, Ptolemy's Gate.
fall afoul, fleet, tamarisk, krait, inkstone, hotted up, down-market, have a truck with, brio, fatalistic, knock-kneed, conserve and 210 more...
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Bananaray's list
words to dwell on.
peregrination, dulcet, wandering, petrichor, cavort, sonant, gunge, cosmorama, efflorescence, lament, timbre, oscine and 22 more...
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Natt's Words
mimsy, foetid, salubrious, herpetic, micturition, gunge, hard-nosed, scrofulous, antimacassar, delve, moist, plinth and 17 more...
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oroboros See gound. Aug 9, 2008
whichbe (Brit. slang) Any messy or clogging substance, esp. one considered otherwise unidentifiable; also, general rubbish, clutter, filth. (WWFTD) May 17, 2008