junk

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  1. noun Discarded material, such as glass, rags, paper, or metal, some of which may be reused in some form.
  2. noun Informal Articles that are worn-out or fit to be discarded: broken furniture and other junk in the attic.
  3. noun Informal Cheap or shoddy material.
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  • After I cleaned out the spilled tobacco and gum and other junk, that is. —  VC Andrews - Broken Wings
  • In Southeast Asia, particularly where the junk is a common means of water transportation, the patrol system must be applied to naval craft—fast, well armed craft, supplemented by junks, coastal craft, and air reconnaissance will prove very effective in interdicting illegal equipment flows. —  Analog October, 1966
  • Among the junk was a cosmiray counter, a radium hen, and a gold ;leaf electroscope. —  COPYRIGHT 1940, 1947, 1948
  • I've often thought that if I was gonna write a story about junk, a good title for it would be "Robitussin AC." —  The Comics Journal
  • Sean doesn't get much junk, which is a good thing. —  Knit & Purl Mama
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rubbish ·  debris ·  jewelry ·  toy ·  furniture ·  artifacts ·  merchandise ·  lumber ·  crap ·  baggage ·  coin ·  hardware
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English jonk, an old cable or rope.
  2. Portuguese junco or Dutch jonk, both from Javanese djong, variant of djung, from Old Javanese jong, sea-going ship.

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  1. from Middle English jonke, from Old French jonc, a rush, a rush-light, French jonc= Spanish Portuguese junco= Italian giunco, a rush, bulrush (in Portuguese also junk, cordage (orig, or sometimes made of rushes), whence the English word in def. 2), from Latin juncus, a rush. From Latin juncus also come ult. English junket and jonquil.
  2. A variant of chunk.
  3. = French jonque, from Spanish Portuguese junco, from Malay ajong, or Chinese chw'an, chu'en, tsw'an, a ship, boat, bark, junk; otherwise from Javanese jung, a large boat.
 

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