junk

Etymology 1
From earlier meaning "old refuse from boats and ships", from, , , , sometimes cut into bits and used as caulking; of origin; perhaps related to , ,. Often compared to, , , , from , from ; however, the Oxford English Dictionary finds "no evidence of connexion".



Noun

 * 1) Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash, garbage.
 * 2) A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
 * 3)  Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
 * 4)  The genitalia, especially of a male.
 * 5) * c. 1851-1852,, Leaves from My Journal in Italy and Elsewhere:
 * My physician has ordered me three pounds of minced salt-junk at every meal.
 * 1) 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.
 * 2)  A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
 * 3)  Material or resources of a kind lacking commercial value.
 * 4) ; gibberish.
 * 1) * c. 1851-1852,, Leaves from My Journal in Italy and Elsewhere:
 * My physician has ordered me three pounds of minced salt-junk at every meal.
 * 1) 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.
 * 2)  A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
 * 3)  Material or resources of a kind lacking commercial value.
 * 4) ; gibberish.
 * 1) 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.
 * 2)  A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
 * 3)  Material or resources of a kind lacking commercial value.
 * 4) ; gibberish.
 * 1)  Material or resources of a kind lacking commercial value.
 * 2) ; gibberish.
 * 1) ; gibberish.
 * 1) ; gibberish.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: တရုတ္ကတၱူ
 * Catalan:
 * Danish:, ,
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Estonian: prügi, jäätmed, praht, heitmed, saast, pühkmed, rämps
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ნაგავი
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: אַלְטֶע זַאכֶן
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: ឡាប់សង, របស់អេបចាយ
 * Korean:
 * Lao:
 * Latin: scrūta
 * Maori: paraurehe
 * Plautdietsch: Schunt
 * Polish: śmieci
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: отпад, олупина
 * Roman: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: གད་ཉིག, ཕུང་རྫས
 * Turkish:
 * Tuvan:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Burmese:
 * Estonian: träni,, , kräpp, kraam
 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician: quincalla
 * Georgian: ხარახურა
 * German:, Kleinkruscht, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian: paccottaglia,, cianfrusaglie,
 * Khmer: ឡាប់សង, របស់អេបចាយ
 * Korean: 개털
 * Lao:
 * Latvian: krāmi, grabasti
 * Maori: paraurehe
 * Navajo: inchxǫ́ʼį́
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:, , , calache , chéchere ,  ,  ,
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: གད་ཉིག, མཁོ་མེད
 * Vietnamese:


 * Bulgarian: хероин
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Russian:


 * Estonian: vänt, riist,
 * Finnish:, kalut
 * German:, , ,
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:

Verb

 * 1)  To throw away.
 * 2)  To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term )

Synonyms

 * ,, , , , of, , , , , , ,
 * See also Thesaurus:junk

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: kassere,
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Finnish:
 * German: 1. wegwerfen, 2. entdecken
 * Italian:
 * Russian: ,

Etymology 2
From or  (or reinforced), from, from  or , variant of , from , ultimately from either  or , from 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)   A Chinese sailing vessel.

Translations

 * Arabic: جُنْك
 * Bulgarian: джонка
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 中國式帆船, ,
 * Czech: džunka
 * Danish: junke
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ĵonko
 * Estonian: džonki
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: xunco
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: djúnka, júnka
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: siunca
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ジャンク
 * Malay: ajung,
 * Navajo: binááʼádaałtsʼózí bitsin naaʼeeł
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: djunke
 * Nynorsk: djunke
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: џонка, џунка
 * Roman: džonka,
 * Slovak: džunka
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: རྒྱ་བཟོ་ཤིང་གྲུ
 * Vietnamese:

Etymology
From, from.

Adjective

 * 1)  young

Etymology
From, from.

Adjective

 * 1)  young

Etymology
From, from , variant of. Compare with 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1)  dark

Etymology
From and.

Adjective

 * 1) young