gunge
noun/ɡʌnd͡ʒ/
Etymology
First attested around 1935–40. Probably an alteration of gunk.
- borrowed from गंज
Definitions
Alternative form of gong
Alternative form of gong: an outhouse.
A viscous or sticky substance, particularly an unpleasant one of vague or unknown…
A viscous or sticky substance, particularly an unpleasant one of vague or unknown composition; goo; gunk.
- Have I got trails of gunge on these frills?
Tholin.
- They call this solid material tholin (after the Greek word for muddy), but it seems likely that chemists will continue to call this rather familiar material “gunge.”
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To clog with gunge.
To cover with gunge.
- I've been gunged on children's TV, hung out with some actors off that soap Dad used to watch, done a photoshoot for a major highstreet fashion outlet and now here we are on the red carpet, outside the cinema in Leicester Square […]
Alternative spelling of ganj.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for gunge. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA