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🟢 A slimy mess 🟤 Sticky dirt 🟢 To cover with slime
to gunge

to gunge

9.6
To cover someone with thick, sticky stuff as a joke
  • verb
  • /ɡʌndʒ/
  • UK
translation icon : cubrir de mugre
  • The host decided to gunge the contestant with green slime during the game show.

Examples

  • In the final round, the losing team was gunged with gooey custard on live television.

  • As a prank, they gunged their friend with chocolate syrup on his birthday.

  • Use the code words hashtag egg roulette gunged in jeans.

  • They're all going oh, gunge the pedo waving Nah and then they get off and I'm left on the chip and people are just kind of waiting.

  • They're all going to gunge the pedo waving Nah and then they get off and I'm left on the tube and people are just kind of waiting.

Synonyms

to plaster
vsto gunge
30 3.8

To cover a surface thickly or stick things all over it

is done as a playful TV punishment using a sticky messy substance
to gum
vsto gunge
2 7.2

To put a sticky substance on something so it sticks

is performed as a humorous or punitive TV tradition using thick goo
to bedaub
vsto gunge
1 9.9

To cover something thickly with a sticky, messy substance

is used as a playful or punitive TV stunt involving thick sticky covering
to gung
vsto gunge
  • UK
9.9

To make something dirty with a sticky or greasy substance

is used as a messy TV prank or punishment involving thick liquid

Antonyms

to clean
∞ 1.0

To remove dirt and stains

to uncover
37 2.7

Remove a cover to show what is under it

How Covered

to plaster
30 3.8
to gunge
  • UK
9.6
to coat
105 2.8
to smear
63 3.7
to dab
11 2.8

Surface Forms

gunge infinitive
gunged past
gunged past participle
gunging present participle
gunges third person singular

Etymology

Gunge as a verb comes from the same idea as gunk and means 'to cover with a sticky mess'. So to be 'gunged' is to be soaked in slime, often as a joke on a show.