guck
1
9.5
- noun
- /ɡʌk/
- Informal
:
sustancia pegajosa
- - I'm up to my knees in guck!
Examples
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After the rain, the yard was filled with guck that was hard to walk through.
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I'm gonna try to get this guck off my shoe.
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There is a tremendous build-up of guck all over them.
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This... guck?
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Be careful you don't get any of that guck on your sweater. Let me comb your hair before your old man gets here; it's stinking up in the back.
Fiction book (1990) -
I stepped in a puddle of guck and now my shoes are ruined.
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The garage was full of old, sticky guck that needed to be cleaned out.
Synonyms
85
1.8
A thick slippery substance that feels wet and sticky
59
3.0
A thick sticky substance that is soft and wet
54
3.7
A wet dirty substance like mud or animal waste
30
4.8
A thick, wet, muddy substance that comes from dirty water
15
4.6
Thick sticky stuff that is dirty or unpleasant
10
7.5
A thick sticky substance that is often messy
7
4.0
A thick sticky liquid that is soft and wet
5
9.0
A sticky, shapeless lump of wet, unpleasant material
1
7.7
A thick sticky substance that is hard to remove
A thick, sticky, dirty substance that is unpleasant to touch
A wet, slippery material that feels thick and makes things slide
Dirty mess or rubbish that makes a place unpleasant
How Thick
Surface Forms
Etymology
Guck names a thick, 'sticky' or dirty substance. A helpful way to remember it is to think of the similar words gunk and goo, which also mean messy, sticky material, so guck is an informal word for that kind of unpleasant mess.