junk

Meanings

Noun

• Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash, garbage.
• A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
• Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
• The genitalia, especially a man’s.
• Salt beef.
• 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.
• A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
• Material or resources of a kind lacking commercial value.
• Nonsense; gibberish
• A Chinese sailing vessel.

Verb

• To throw away.
• To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junkshop)

Related

Similar words

• bin, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, discard, dispose of, ditch, dump, scrap, throw away, throw out, toss, trash

Origin

• From Middle English junke ("old cable, rope"), probably from Old French jonc ("rush"), from Latin iuncus ("rush"). junco, and juncus.
• Image:Junk.png|thumb|right|150px|A box full of junk (2)
• Image:Kangxi-Reise.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The Kangxi Emperor on a tour, seated prominently on the deck of a junk.
• From Portuguese junco or Dutch jonk (or reinforced), from Arabic جُنْك, from Malay or Javanese djong, variant of djung, from Old Javanese jong ("seagoing ship"), ultimately from Chinese 船.