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noun
offensive North AmericanA foreigner, especially a person of Philippine, Korean, or Vietnamese descent.
Pronunciation
Origin
1930s of unknown origin.
noun
informalA sloppy wet or viscous substance.
- ‘all that gook she kept putting on her face’
- ‘Indeed, for a pinkish, processed, canned luncheon meat surrounded in gelatinous gook, Spam has quite an amazing story to tell - and a uniquely American one at that.’
- ‘I was almost shocked, for instance, at the simple perfection of the Clams Casino - a New York-like first course that often is miserably laden with breadcrumb-cheese gook and baked into submission.’
- ‘He'd only seen the makeup kit briefly, when Tanner took out some white, gloppy gook to take off the makeup that covered nearly his entire body.’
- ‘Britney came stomping down the hallway, some kinda gook in her hair.’
- ‘I tried to scramble back into the wall and got drenched in colored gook.’
- ‘Christine was still trying to clear her mouth of the sweet gook.’
- ‘This gook makes the difference between a frizzy mess and some kind of defined curl.’
- ‘It's important to stir fairly constantly, scraping the bottom so all the gook you just bubbled gets blended in.’
mud, muck, mire, ooze, silt, alluvium, dirt, slime, slush, slurry
Pronunciation
Origin
1970s variant of guck.
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