Gook

Quick meaning: Gook is a noun meaning (informal) Grime or mud.

Meaning

(informal) Grime or mud.

More Meanings

1. (Cornwall) A bonnet (headwear).
2. (ambitransitive, childish) Synonym of look.
3. (dated, derogatory) A foreigner (to the speaker), especially the (enemy) natives of a place the speaker's military is at war with or in.
4. (slang) A dull or hapless person.
5. (slang, vulgar, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of (South) East Asian descent (originally revolutionaries of the Katipunan then generally to any native of the Philippines, after the enemy and collaborators hid amongst them), but now especially:

Example Sentences

the poor old gook was spitting blood

Some say 'Mar Teazer do live in pattens and gook; must go to bed in 'em I'm thinking!

"Roost No More" was a yellow gook that Joe's people would spread around, for a fee, on the ledges of houses and commercial buildings plagued by pigeons.

"Haiti is a country with a history, […]" "but how about the Marines, and the gendarmerie; aren't they on the job?" […] "You know darn well a civilian can't get away with handling a gook like a Marine can; […]"

Word Forms

• gooks
• gooking
• gooked

Synonyms for gook

Depending on context, synonyms include look.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sludge, slime, muck, ooze, goo, gunk.

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