name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
junk
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK, US: /d͡ʒʌŋk/
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Australian, New-Zealand: /d͡ʒɐŋk/
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Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -ʌŋk
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homophone: junque
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CMU ARPABET: JH AH1 NG K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Miscellaneous items of little value, especially discarded or unwanted items.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Examples
- This shed is full of junk – will you help me sort it out?
- She needs to find a better place to keep her junk [= belongings].
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: clutter, cultch, crap, debris, dreck, drek, garbage, gash, junk, litter, pelf, piece of crap, piece of garbage, piece of shit, pile of crap, pile of shit, piece of trash, rubbish, refuse, roughage, service item, shit, stuff, trash, waste
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Material or resources of poor quality or low value, especially resources that lack commercial value.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive, uncountable, usually
Examples
- junk food
- junk fish; junk trees
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
Nonsense; gibberish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Examples
- The student put down junk for answers just to finish his homework more quickly.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 6
The genitalia, especially of a male.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: anaconda, baloney pony, bald-headed hermit, banana, birdie, bobby, boonga, cack, choad, choda, chode, chopper, cigar, cock, corey, crank, cucumber, custard launcher, D, dick, dicklet, diddle, diddly, dingaling, ding-a-ling, ding-dong, dinger, dingle, dingus, dingy, dink, dinkle, dipstick, dirk, disco stick, dog bone, dong, donger, Donkey Kong, doodle, dork, down, fire hose, fuckpole, gherkin, hairy canary, hammer, hog, hot dog, hot rod, hoo-hoo, hooter, it, jade stalk, jamoke, jigger, jimmy, job, jock, johnson, John Thomas, joint, Jonathan, joystick, kielbasa, knob, lad, langer, lingam, love muscle, love stick, love truncheon, love sausage, love wand, machine, magnum, Master John Goodfellow, male member, manhood, man-meat, meat, meat puppet, meat rod, meat scepter, meatstick, meat stick, member, membrum virile, nature's scythe, nob, old chap, old fellow, one-eyed trouser snake, organ, package, pecker, peen, peener, pee-pee, pee-wee, pego, penis, Percy, peter, phallus, pickle, piece, piece of pork, pike, pillicock, pingas, pink cigar, pink oboe, pintle, pipe, pisser, piston, pizzle, plonker, pork sword, prick, pud, purple-headed yogurt slinger, putz, p-word, python, ramrod, rape tool, rod, root, rutter, salami, sausage, schlong, schmuck, sex tool, shaft, shlong, shmekl (q, colloquial, Yiddish), short arm, skin flute, snake, snausage, spitstick, stem, stretcher, sucker, swipe, tadger, tagger, tail, tallywhacker, tarse, thing, thingy, third leg, tic tac, todger, tool, trouser monkey, trouser snake, truncheon, tube steak, unit, virile member, wang, weapon, wee-wee, weenie, weeny, whang, wick, widgie, widdler, wiener, willie, willy, wingwang, winkle, winky, yard, ying-yang
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
Salt beef.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: nautical, transport
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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noun
Meaning 8
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 9
A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, dated, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 10
An entity with no whole; every part is itself a proper part of something larger.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 11
A Chinese sailing vessel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 12
To throw away.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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verb
Meaning 13
To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junkshop)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, transitive
Examples
- (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."
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 14
To consume junk food, mainly at a fast-food restaurant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, intransitive, transitive
Examples
- Let's just junk some burgers at McDonald's.
- Let me go junking to KFC with you.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 15
any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: boat
noun
Meaning 16
the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: debris, dust, rubble, detritus
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: rubbish, trash, scrap
Narrower terms: slack
verb
Meaning 17
dispose of (something useless or old)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- trash these old chairs
- junk an old car
- scrap your old computer
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: trash, scrap
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away, chuck out, cast aside, dispose, throw out, cast out, throw away, cast away, put away
History
Etymology
South German surname, spelling variant of Jung.
From earlier meaning "old refuse from boats and ships", from Middle English junk, jounke, jonk, joynk (“an old cable or rope”, nautical term), sometimes cut into bits and used as caulking; of uncertain origin; perhaps related to join, joint, juncture. Often compared to Middle English junk, jonk, jonke, junck (“a rush; basket made of rushes”), from Old French jonc, from Latin iuncus (“rush, reed”); however, the Oxford English Dictionary finds "no evidence of connexion".
From Portuguese junco with reinforcement from Dutch jonk, from Arabic جُنْك (junk), from Malay jong, جوڠ, from Javanese ꦗꦺꦴꦁ (jong), from Old Javanese joṅ (“seagoing ship”), probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *d2luuŋ ~ *d2luŋ ~ *d2luəŋ ~ *d2ləŋ (“boat”). Doublet of djong.
Across languages
Translations
129 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 破爛 /破烂 (pòlàn) — miscellaneous items of little value
- Wu Chinese: 𤎤𡮦 /𬝃𡮦 — miscellaneous items of little value
- Danish: bras — miscellaneous items of little value
- Danish: ragelse — miscellaneous items of little value
- Dutch: rommel — miscellaneous items of little value
- Dutch: rotzooi — miscellaneous items of little value
- Estonian: träni — miscellaneous items of little value
- Estonian: nodi — miscellaneous items of little value
- Estonian: kola — miscellaneous items of little value
- Estonian: kräpp — miscellaneous items of little value
- Estonian: kraam — miscellaneous items of little value
- Finnish: roina — miscellaneous items of little value
- Finnish: kama — miscellaneous items of little value
- Galician: quincalla — miscellaneous items of little value
- Georgian: ხარახურა (xaraxura) — miscellaneous items of little value
- German: Kram — miscellaneous items of little value
- German: Kleinkruscht — miscellaneous items of little value
- German: Ramsch — miscellaneous items of little value
- German: Krempel — miscellaneous items of little value
- Greek: παλιατσαρία (paliatsaría) — miscellaneous items of little value
- Hungarian: lom‚ kacat — miscellaneous items of little value
- Icelandic: drasl — miscellaneous items of little value
- Italian: paccottaglia — miscellaneous items of little value
- Italian: ciarpame — miscellaneous items of little value
- Italian: cianfrusaglie — miscellaneous items of little value
- Italian: robaccia — miscellaneous items of little value
- Khmer: ឡាប់សង (lap sɑɑŋ) — miscellaneous items of little value
- Khmer: របស់អេបចាយ (rɔbɑh eɛp caay) — miscellaneous items of little value
- Korean: 개털 (gaeteol) — miscellaneous items of little value
- Latvian: krāmi — miscellaneous items of little value
- Latvian: grabasti — miscellaneous items of little value
- Māori: paraurehe — miscellaneous items of little value
- Navajo: inchxǫ́ʼį́ — miscellaneous items of little value
- Persian: بنجل (bonjol) — miscellaneous items of little value
- Portuguese: porcaria — miscellaneous items of little value
- Russian: барахло́ (baraxló) — miscellaneous items of little value
- Russian: хлам (xlam) — miscellaneous items of little value
- Russian: ру́хлядь (rúxljadʹ) — miscellaneous items of little value
- Spanish: basura — miscellaneous items of little value
- Spanish: chatarra — miscellaneous items of little value
- Spanish: cachureo — miscellaneous items of little value
- Spanish: chunches — miscellaneous items of little value
- Swedish: bråte — miscellaneous items of little value
- Tibetan: གད་ཉིག (gad nyig) — miscellaneous items of little value
- Tibetan: མཁོ་མེད (mkho med) — miscellaneous items of little value
- Ottoman Turkish: مارده (marda) — miscellaneous items of little value
- Vietnamese: phế liệu — miscellaneous items of little value
- Bulgarian: хероин (heroin) — slang: narcotic drug
- Dutch: spul — slang: narcotic drug
- Dutch: gerief — slang: narcotic drug
- Estonian: kama — slang: narcotic drug
- Finnish: kama — slang: narcotic drug
- French: came — slang: narcotic drug
- German: Stoff — slang: narcotic drug
- Greek: ναρκωτικό (narkotikó) — slang: narcotic drug
- Greek: πρέζα (préza) — slang: narcotic drug
- Japanese: ジャンク (janku) — slang: narcotic drug
- Russian: дурь (durʹ) — slang: narcotic drug
- Estonian: vänt — slang: genitalia
- Estonian: riist — slang: genitalia
- Estonian: vant — slang: genitalia
- Finnish: kalu — slang: genitalia
- Finnish: kalut — slang: genitalia
- German: Eier — slang: genitalia
- German: Krempel — slang: genitalia
- German: Nüsse — slang: genitalia
- German: Klöten — slang: genitalia
- Italian: coglioni — slang: genitalia
- Polish: klejnoty — slang: genitalia
- Russian: хозя́йство (xozjájstvo) — slang: genitalia
- Arabic: جُنْك (junk) — Chinese sailing vessel
- Bulgarian: джонка (džonka) — Chinese sailing vessel
- Catalan: jonc — Chinese sailing vessel
- Chinese Mandarin: 中國式帆船 /中国式帆船 (Zhōngguó shì fānchuán) — Chinese sailing vessel
- Chinese Mandarin: 䑸 (zōng) — Chinese sailing vessel
- Chinese Mandarin: 舟 (zhōu) — Chinese sailing vessel
- Chinese Mandarin: 艚 (cáo) — Chinese sailing vessel
- Chinese Mandarin: 戎克船 (róngkèchuán) — Chinese sailing vessel
- Czech: džunka — Chinese sailing vessel
- Danish: junke — Chinese sailing vessel
- Dutch: jonk — Chinese sailing vessel
- Esperanto: ĵonko — Chinese sailing vessel
- Estonian: džonki — Chinese sailing vessel
- Finnish: džonkki — Chinese sailing vessel
- French: jonque — Chinese sailing vessel
- Galician: xunco — Chinese sailing vessel
- German: Dschunke — Chinese sailing vessel
- Hebrew: גּ׳וּנְקָה (júnka) — Chinese sailing vessel
- Hindi: जंग (jaṅg) — Chinese sailing vessel
- Hungarian: dzsunka — Chinese sailing vessel
- Icelandic: djúnka — Chinese sailing vessel
- Icelandic: júnka — Chinese sailing vessel
- Indonesian: jung — Chinese sailing vessel
- Irish: siunca (Síneach) — Chinese sailing vessel
- Italian: giunca — Chinese sailing vessel
- Japanese: ジャンク (janku) — Chinese sailing vessel
- Japanese: 戎克 (janku) — Chinese sailing vessel
- Malay: ajung — Chinese sailing vessel
- Malay: jong — Chinese sailing vessel
- Navajo: binááʼádaałtsʼózí bitsin naaʼeeł — Chinese sailing vessel
- Norwegian Bokmål: djunke — Chinese sailing vessel
- Norwegian Nynorsk: djunke — Chinese sailing vessel
- Persian: جنگ (jong) — Chinese sailing vessel
- Polish: dżonka — Chinese sailing vessel
- Portuguese: junco — Chinese sailing vessel
- Romanian: joncă — Chinese sailing vessel
- Russian: джо́нка (džónka) — Chinese sailing vessel
- Serbo-Croatian: џонка — Chinese sailing vessel
- Serbo-Croatian: џунка — Chinese sailing vessel
- Serbo-Croatian: džonka — Chinese sailing vessel
- Serbo-Croatian: džunka — Chinese sailing vessel
- Slovak: džunka — Chinese sailing vessel
- Spanish: junco — Chinese sailing vessel
- Swedish: djonk — Chinese sailing vessel
- Thai: สําเภา (sǎm-pao) — Chinese sailing vessel
- Tibetan: རྒྱ་བཟོ་ཤིང་གྲུ (rgya bzo shing gru) — Chinese sailing vessel
- Vietnamese: ghe — Chinese sailing vessel
- Bulgarian: изхвърлям (izhvǎrljam) — throw away
- Danish: kassere — throw away
- Danish: smide ud — throw away
- Dutch: weggooien — throw away
- Dutch: wegwerpen — throw away
- Dutch: wegsmijten — throw away
- Dutch: dumpen — throw away
- Finnish: romuttaa — throw away
- German: wegwerfen — throw away
- Italian: rottamare — throw away
- Russian: выбра́сывать (vybrásyvatʹ) — throw away
- Russian: вы́бросить (výbrositʹ) — throw away