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gook
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun gook has 2 senses
- gook(n = noun.substance) goo, goop, guck, gunk, muck, ooze, slime, sludge - any thick, viscous matter; Array is a kind of matter
- gook(n = noun.person) slant-eye - (slang) a disparaging term for an Asian person (especially for North Vietnamese soldiers in the Vietnam War); Array is a kind of oriental, oriental person
has particulars: sapropel
OXFORD DICTIONARY
gook, n. US sl. offens. a foreigner, esp. a coloured person from E. Asia.
Etymology
20th c.: orig. unkn.
THESAURUS
gook
American Indian, Amerind, Australian aborigine, Bushman, Caucasian, Indian, Malayan, Mister Charley, Mongolian, Negrillo, Negrito, Negro, Oriental, Red Indian, WASP, albumen, baloney, batter, bilge, black, black man, blackfellow, bonnyclabber, boy, brown man, burrhead, butter, cab, clabber, colored person, coon, cornstarch, crap, cream, curd, darky, dough, drivel, egg white, gaum, gel, gelatin, glair, glop, glue, gluten, goo, goop, gruel, gumbo, gunk, hogwash, honky, hooey, jam, jell, jelly, jigaboo, jungle bunny, loblolly, malarkey, molasses, mucilage, muck, mucus, nigger, niggra, ofay, paleface, pap, paste, porridge, pudding, pulp, puree, putty, pygmy, red man, redskin, rob, rot, semifluid, semiliquid, size, slant-eye, soup, spade, starch, sticky mess, syrup, the Man, trash, treacle, white, white man, whitey, yellow man
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