junk

English

/dʒʌŋk/

noun
Definitions
  • Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash.
  • A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
  • (slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
  • (slang) The genitalia.
  • (nautical) Salt beef.
  • 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.
  • (dated) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
  • (attributive) Material or resources of a kind lacking commercial value.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English junke (old cable, rope) derived from Old French jonc (rush) derived from Latin iuncus (rush, reed, a rush).

Origin

Latin

iuncus

Gloss

rush, reed, a rush

Concept
Semantic Field

Agriculture and vegetation

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

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