junk
1 (jŭngk)
[Middle English jonk, an old cable or rope.]
noun
- Discarded material, such as glass, rags, paper, or metal, some of which may be reused in some form.
- Informal
- Articles that are worn-out or fit to be discarded: broken furniture and other junk in the attic.
- Cheap or shoddy material.
- Something meaningless, fatuous, or unbelievable: nothing but junk in the annual report.
- Slang Heroin.
- Hard salt beef for consumption on board a ship.
transitive verb: junked, junk·ing, junks.
- To discard as useless or sell to be reused as parts; scrap.
adjective
- Cheap, shoddy, or worthless: junk jewelry.
- Having a superficial appeal or utility, but lacking substance: “the junk issues that have dominated this year's election” (New Republic)
junk
2 (jŭngk)
[Portuguese junco, or Dutch jonk, both from Javanese djong, variant of djung, from Old Javanese jong, sea-going ship.]
noun
- A Chinese flatbottom ship with a high poop and battened sails.
