junk
Miscellaneous items of little value, especially discarded or unwanted itemsMiscellaneous items of little value, especially discarded or unwanted items.
» I think you've been eating too much junk food.
Мені зається, ти їсиш забагато шкідливої їжі.
Мені зається, ви їсте забагато шкідливої їжі.
Meaning
10 senses(uncountable, usually)Miscellaneous items of little value, especially discarded or unwanted items.
This shed is full of junk – will you help me sort it out?
She needs to find a better place to keep her junk [= belongings].
Kram, Kleinkruscht, Ramsch
барахло́baraxló, хламxlam, ру́хлядьrúxljadʹ
(attributive, uncountable, usually)Material or resources of poor quality or low value, especially resources that lack commercial value.
junk food
junk fish; junk trees
(uncountable, usually)Nonsense; gibberish.
The student put down junk for answers just to finish his homework more quickly.
(slang, uncountable, usually)Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
Stoff
дурьdurʹ
(slang, uncountable, usually)The genitalia, especially of a male.
Eier, Krempel, Nüsse
хозя́йствоxozjájstvo
(uncountable, usually)Salt beef.
(uncountable, usually)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.
(countable, dated, usually)A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
(uncountable, usually)An entity with no whole; every part is itself a proper part of something larger.
A Chinese sailing vessel.
Dschunke
джо́нкаdžónka
- any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails
- the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
Examples
278 sentencesI think you've been eating too much junk food.
Мені зається, ти їсиш забагато шкідливої їжі.
Instead of eating real food, we just ate junk food all day.
Замість того, щоб їсти справжню їжу, ми весь день харчувалися нездоровою їжею.
I like junk food.
Мені подобається шкідлива їжа.
Tom eats too much junk food.
ruТом ест слишком много вредной пищи.
deTom nimmt zu viel Minderkost zu sich.
Tom almost never eats junk food.
Translations
7 languagesBy meaning 4
By meaning 4
Origin
From earlier meaning "old refuse from boats and ships", from Middle English junk, jounke,From earlier meaning "old refuse from boats and ships", from Middle English junk, jounke, jonk, joynk (“an old cable or rope”, nautical term), sometimes cut into bits and used as caulking; of uncertain origin; perhaps related to join, joint, juncture. Often compared to Middle English junk, jonk, jonke, junck (“a rush; basket made of rushes”), from Old French jonc, from Latin iuncus (“rush, reed”); however, the Oxford English Dictionary finds "no evidence of connexion".
From Portuguese junco with reinforcement from Dutch jonk, from Arabic جُنْك (junk), from Malay jong, جوڠ, from Javanese ꦗꦺꦴꦁ (jong), from Old Javanese joṅ (“seagoing ship”), probably from Proto-Mon-Khmer *d₂luuŋ ~ *d₂luŋ ~ *d₂luəŋ ~ *d₂ləŋ (“boat”). Doublet of djong.
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Forms
plural: junksSynonyms
227 synonymsWord family
58 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
Collocations
12 patterns- junk food
- eat junk food
- much junk food
- so much junk
- lot of junk
- eat junk
- all this junk
- much junk
- full of junk
- too much junk
- stop eating junk
- of junk food