Junk

Definition: Junk

Junk

Noun

1. The remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up.

2. Any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails.

3. A narcotic that is considered a hard drug; a highly addictive morphine derivative.

Verb

1. Dispose of (something useless or old); "trash these old chairs;"; "junk an old car"; "scrap your old computer".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "junk" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1835. (references)

Literature

Mining

Multilingual Slang

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Junk

Deception

Whited sepulcher, painted sepulcher; tinsel; paste, junk jewelry, costume jewelry, false jewelry, synthetic jewels; scagliola, ormolu, German silver, albata, paktong, white metal, Britannia metal, paint; veneer; jerry building; man of straw.

Food

Meal, repast, feed, spread; mess; dish, plate, course; regale; regalement, refreshment, entertainment; refection, collation, picnic, feast, banquet, junket; breakfast; lunch, luncheon; dejeuner, bever, tiffin, dinner, supper, snack, junk food, fast food, whet, bait, dessert; potluck, table d'hote, dejeuner a la fourchette; hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full meal; blowout; light refreshment; bara, chotahazri; bara khana.

Inutility

Litter, rubbish, junk, lumber, odds and ends, cast-off clothes; button top; shoddy; rags, orts, trash, refuse, sweepings, scourings, offscourings, waste, rubble, debris, detritus; stubble, leavings; broken meat; dregs; (dirt); weeds, tares; rubbish heap, dust hole; rudera, deads.

Jewelry

Noun: jewel, jewelry, jewellery; bijoutry; bijou, bijouterie; trinket;fine jewelry; costume jewelry, junk jewelry; gem, gemstone, precious stone.

Ship

Catamaran, hydroplane, hovercraft,coracle, gondola, carvel, caravel; felucca, caique, canoe, birch bark canoe, dugout canoe; galley, galleyfoist; bilander, dogger, hooker, howker; argosy, carack; galliass, galleon; polacca, polacre, tartane, junk, lorcha, praam, proa, prahu, saick, sampan, xebec, dhow; dahabeah; nuggah; kayak, keel boat, log canoe, pirogue;

Crosswords: Junk

Relinquishing junk. Stage one, preparation (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge)

Yeah, junk bond (Hook; writing credit: J.M. Barrie;)

I got tired of seein' children roamin' the woodlands without food, children roamin' the highways in this here Depression, children sleepin' in old abandoned car bodies in junk heaps (The Night of the Hunter; writing credit: James Agee; Davis Grubb)

Junk it (Mystery Men; writing credit: Kinka Usher, written by Bob Burden and Neil Cuthbert. Based on the comic book series.)

You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of coliginious junk! (The Wizard of Oz; writing credit: Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf)

Hot funk, cool punk, even if it's old junk (It's Still Rock and Roll To Me; performing artist: Billy Joel)

I believe that junk food tastes so good because it's bad for you (Affirmation; performing artist: Savage Garden)

There was junk all over the floor (Another One Rides The Bus; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic)

Junk Drawer (2002)

JUNK FOOD JUNKIE (performing artist: LARRY GROSS)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Junk English (reference)

• The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food (First Time Books) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Junk Mail (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Junk Boy (reference)

• Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories, Vol. 12: Aunt Ippy's Museum of Junk (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Junk & Jubilee-An Epidrama/Rub (reference)

• Junk Science (reference)

• Shockheaded Peter: A Junk Opera (1998 Original London Cast) [CAST RECORDING] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A grocery bag spills out junk food (Cheetos, fried pork skins, cookies, cheddar and bacon crackers). There are bananas and oranges hidden in the background. See artwork: PV-44. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Car junk yard in West Palm Beach, Florida. Potential mosquito breeding site. Credit: CDC.

Worker sprays junk to kill any mosquito larvae that might be present, Miami, Florida. Credit: CDC.

A small Chinese junk. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A woman health educator giving a health talk to a group on board a fishing junk. / WHO/China Photo Service photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

I don't want to be in the junk business! ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Junk : Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke. Credit: Library of Congress.

Chinese junk tied to Yang-tze River bank. Credit: Library of Congress.

Salvage. Requisitioning auto graveyards. Tons of scrap at the auto graveyard of the Lenox Motor Company, Colmar Manor, Maryland were withheld from the war effort. Donovan, the owner, refused to sell at established junk prices. The material has since been. Credit: Library of Congress.

Children playing in junk pile, Jackson, Ohio. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

It is the finest way of settling bills known to man. Haven't you read their junk mail?

Junk piled up in a yard

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Clear brush, grass and junk from around house foundations to eliminate a source of nesting materials. (references)

Eliminating food and shelter for rodents in and around homes, work places, and recreation areas by making buildings rodent-proof, and by removing brush, rock piles, junk, and food sources (such as pet food), from properties. (references)

Business

Spin-off benefits are being realized where people are beginning to see fast-food not just as junk food but good value. (references)

Trade

China

The catalogue identifies the following "prohibited commodities": used garments; used publications with licentious content; radioactive or harmful industrial waste; junk cars, used automobiles or components; seeds, seedlings, fertilizers, feed, additives, or antibiotics used in the cultivation or breeding of any export commodity. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "junk": buy cheap junk ♦ cheap junk ♦ heap of junk ♦ junk basket ♦ junk bond ♦ junk bonds ♦ Junk bottle ♦ junk dealer ♦ junk food ♦ junk heap ♦ Junk hook ♦ junk jewelry ♦ junk mail ♦ junk pile ♦ Junk ring ♦ junk room ♦ junk shop ♦ junk shop owner ♦ junk store ♦ Junk vat ♦ Junk wad ♦ junk yard ♦ old junk ♦ piece of junk ♦ salt junk. Additional references.

Beginning with "junk": junk-bond, junk-bonds, junk-bondster, junk-chute, junk-culture, junk-default, junk-filled, junk-food, junk-food-laden, junk-funk, junk-grade, junk-heap, junk-mail, junk-shop, junk-words, junk-yard, junk-yards.

Ending with "junk": sea-junk.

Albanian

xhonkë, vjeturina (rags), rrangullina, pastërma, narkotik (dope, drug, narcotic, opiate, soporific), litar i vjetër për hasra, hedhurina (mullock, offal, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, throw out, truck), drogë (dope, drug, pot), barkë me vela me fund të sheshtë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مخدرات (dope, stuff), ‏نفاية (chaff, dump, garbage, outcast, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, scouring, short, slush, soil, swill, trash, waste), ‏تافه (banal, commonplace, contemptible, crummy, fade, fiddling, flat, foolish, footling, fractional, frivolous, frothy, good for nothing, inane, inconsiderable, insignificant, light, lilliputian, little, lowbrow, measly, minute, naught, negligible, niggling, nonsensical, nugatory, null, paltry, pedestrian, petty, piddling, pimping, piteous, pitiable, platitudinous, pointless, puny, ridiculous, run of the mill, silly, slight, slim, small time, smelly, stupid, trifle, trifling, trite, trivial, trumpery, two a penny, two bit, twopenny-halfpenny, unimportant, unsavory, unsavoury, unworthy, vain, valueless, vapid, vile, worthless), ‏سقط المتاع (lumber, offal, raffle, rubbish, stuff, tat, trash, write off), ‏خردة (scrap, written off), ‏الينك سفينة شراعية, ‏الرمم, ‏رخيص (cheap, crummy, frugal, inexpensive, low-priced, saleable, shoddy, sleazy, tinny, two bit). (various references)

Bulgarian 

солено месо, тъкан от черепа на кашалот, голямо парче (hunch, hunk), глупости (all my eye, applesauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blah, bleat, blether, boloney, bosh, bull, buncombe, cod, crap, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, footle, fudge, guff, gup, hokum, humbug, jiggery pokery, kibosh, monkey business, monkeybusiness, nonsense, nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rhubarb, rot, rubbish, shucks, slush, stuff and nonsense, tack, tommy rot, truck, trumpery), вехтории (lumber, odd-come-shorts, rummage), остатъци (debris, dregs, leftovers, odd-come-shorts, oddments, odds and ends, offal, pickings, remainder, rinsings, trash, waste), отпадъци (carrion, dregs, dross, garbage, husks, leavings, litter, offal, pickings, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, scobs, scrapings, stock, throw out, throwaway, trash, waste, write-offs), наркотици, буца (bunch, chunk, cob, dollop, gibbosity, gob, hunch, intumescence, knob, lump, nub, protuberance, tuber), боклуци (odds and ends, stuff), плоскодънна китайска лодка (sampan). (various references)

Chinese 

艚 (sea-going junk), 棑 (raft, shield, stern of junk). (various references)

Czech

veteš (brick-a-brac), kus (chunk, dish, head, item, lump, part, piece, stretch), krámy (clutter, things), haraburdí (dross), brak (defective products, dog, rubbish, trash, waste), šmejd (dog, shoddy, trash, tripe, trumpery). (various references)

Danish

junke (bang, shot), junk (candy, merchandise). (various references)

Dutch

junk, jonk. (various references)

Farsi 

نی (Cane, Sprit, Straw, Tube), کهنه وکم ارزش , قایق ته پهن چینی , جنس اوراق وشکسته , جنس بنجل (Duffer, Shoddy), جگن (Sedge, Wattle), اشغال (Dump, Jakes, Litter, Occupancy, Occupation, Refuse, Riffraff, Rubbish, Scrap, Slag, Slither, Sliver, Swill, Tenure, Tot, Trash), بنجل شمردن , بدورانداختن . (various references)

Finnish

romu (lumber, rubbish), kama, dshonkki. (various references)

French

jonque. (various references)

German

dschunke. (various references)

Greek 

κινέζικο ιστιοφόρο, σκουπίδια (garbage, litter, refuse, rubbish, sweepings, trash), σαβούρα (ballast), παλιά άχρηστα πράγματα, παλιοπράγματα, παληοσίδερα, παληοπράγματα (lumber), είδοσ κινέζικου πλοίου, απορρίπτω ωσ άχρηστα (scrap), τζόγκα. (various references)

Hebrew 

מפרשית סינית, פסולת (dregs, litter, offal, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, sweepings, trash, waste), חסר ערך (fiddling, light, paltry, picayune, pip squeak, rubbishy, trashy, two bit, twopenny half penny, vain, valueless, worthless), גרוטא (lumber, scrap, scrap iron, wreck, write off). (various references)

Hungarian

ócskaság (bric-a-brac, duds, schlock, shocker). (various references)

Italian

giunca. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

瓦落多 (rubbish, trash), 廃物 (scrap, waste material), ジャスミン茶 (jab, jack, jackal, jack-knife, jackpot, JAL PAK, jam, jam bun, jam session, Jamaica, jammer, jamming, Jap, Japan, Japan bashing, Japan Cup, Japan Foundation, Japan shift, Japan Society, Japan Times, Japanese, Japanese English, Japanese management, Japanese smile, Japanesque, Japanologist, Japanology, Japonaiserie, Japonica, jasmine tea, JASRAC, javelin, jazz, jazz band, jazz chorus, jazz dance, jazz festival, jazz life, jazz piano, jazz singer, jazz song, jazzmen, judge, judge paper, judgement, juggle, junction, junk accessories, junk art, junk bond, junk food, junkie). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

がらくた (rubbish, trash), ジャンク , はいぶつ (scrap, waste material). (various references)

Korean 

쓰레기 (garbage, trash). (various references)

Manx

trustyr (deads, debris, dirt, dross, filth, garbage, muck, muckiness, nastiness, refuse, rubbish, scrap, trash, trash rubbish), molid, junkey. (various references)

Norwegian

skrap (lumber), narkotika (drug). (various references)

Pig Latin

unkjay.(various references)

Portuguese

junco (bulrush, cane, gorse, reed, with, withy), velharias sem valor, coisas velhas, carne salgada (bully), barco oriental. (various references)

Romanian

vechituri (lumber, odds and ends, pedlary, rubbish, trash), toxicoman, tãia în bucãţi (cut up, dismember), obiecte uzate, heroinã, fier vechi, drog (dope), deşeuri (cutting, loss, refuse, rejection, rubbish, tailings, waste), bucatã (article, bar, brick, clod, cut, dollop, fragment, hunk, length, morsel, nub, part, Pat, patch, piece, ribbon, shred, slice, snack, steak, tablet). (various references)

Russian 

утиль, солонина (corned beef, salt beef, salt junk), спермацетовый мешок, рухлядь;джонка, рухлядь (lumber), хлам (lumber, odd-come-short, rubbish, rummage, schlock, shoddy), колода (chump, deck, pack, wood block, woodblock), ворса, отбросы (chaff, cheese-parings, dross, filth, garbage, leavings, mullock, offal, offscourings, recrement, refuse, rejectamenta, tailings, throw out, throw-out, waifs and strays, waste), ненужный хлам, мелкий скрап, джонка. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

starudija (lumber, old junk, rags), stare stvari, stara užad, heroin (heroin, horse, smack), džunka, đubre (dung, fertilizer, garbage, laystall, muck, offscourings, ordure, rubbish, sweepings, trash). (various references)

Spanish

junco (cane, reed, rush). (various references)

Swedish

skräp (debris, dross, duffer, garbage, kitsch, litter, lumber, pulp, rubbish, shoddy, trash, waste), lump (rags), djonk. (various references)

Thai

เรือสำเภา, เศษของที่ไม่ใช้แล้ว, กำจัด (kiss away, lose, purge, shed). (various references)

Turkish

uyuşturucu (anesthetic, anodyne, drug, hop, narcotic, opiate, somniferous, stuff, stupefacient), hurdaya ayırmak (scrap), hurda demir (scrap iron), hurda (rattletrap, salvage, scrap, write off), esrar (cabala, cabbala, dope, enigma, grass, hash, hasheesh, hashish, hay, hemp, joint, marihuana, marijuana, mary jane, maryjane, mystery, pot, secrets, tea, weed), değersiz şey (cheeseparing, damn, falderal, gold brick, lemon, rag, shoddy, slush, small beer, stiver, trifle, trumpery), döküntü (debris, detritus, dilapidated, dreg, excuse, fall out, fallout, heap, litter, refuse, residuum, rubbish, rubble, scrap, skin eruption, spoils, sweeps, tot, waste), atmak (affix, beat, blow, blow out, cashier, cast, cast away, cast off, catapult, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, dart, dash, deliver, discharge, doff, draw the longbow, drop, eject, elbow out, elbow smb. out, eliminate, fabricate, fetch, fib, flash, fling, fling away, fling out, fuse, fuze, give a kick, heave, hurl, inflict, insert, invent, launch, let fly, loose, loose off, order off, peg, peg at, pelt, pitch, precipitate, project, pulsate, pulse, put, scutch, send, shoot, shoot out, shy, sling, tell a fib, tell lies, throw, throw away, throw into, toss, uncork, utter, void), çin yelkenlisi, çöpe atmak (chuck out), çöp (brushing, chip, crud, discard, dregs, garbage, leavings, litter, mullock, refuse, rejectamenta, rubbish, straw, trash, waste), ıvır zıvır (chaff, crap, dead wood, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, gadget, gadgetry, gadgety, gewgaw, Gubbins, knick knack, knickknack, nicknack, odds and ends, rubbish, small potatoes, trifles, trinket, trinkets), ıskartaya ayırmak (discard, scrap, weed out, weed up). (various references)

Turkmen 

kцne-kьюьl (old things). (various references)

Ukrainian

шматок (bar, bit, clout, gobbet, slog, wad), шина (bus, tire, tyre), відрізати куском, здавати в утіль, брухт (debris). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thuyền mành, thuỷ tinh vụn, giấy vụn, ghe mành, cục (clod, clot, department, knob, lump, piece, service). (various references)

juncus. (various references)

junc. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "junk": junked, junker, junkers, junket, junketed, junketeer, junketeers, junketer, junketers, junketing, junkets, junkie, junkier, junkies, junkiest, junking, junkman, junkmen, junks, junky, junkyard, junkyards. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Junk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aunk, Janik, jank, Janke, janko, jauk, jenik, jenk, jewn, jinj, jinu, joak, joink, Jonk, jono, juck, juen, juk, jun, juna, Junb, Junc, junck, junct, Jund, jungi, Jungk, Juni, junke, junki, Junr, juns, junt, junx, juon, jurk, jurn, jusk, unk, yunk, zunk. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: jun.

-2 letters: nu, un.

+1 letter: junks, junky.

+2 letters: juking, junked, junker, junket, junkie.

+3 letters: jauking, jouking, junkers, junkets, junkier, junkies, junking, junkman, junkmen, muntjak.

+4 letters: junketed, junketer, junkiest, junkyard, kinkajou, muntjaks.

+5 letters: junketeer, junketers, junketing, junkyards, kinkajous, kurrajong.