Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thick messy substance, such as sludge.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun any thick messy substance.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any thick, viscous matter
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The guck is gone from the air, the streets are cleaned, and, if things are really wet and cold, the local mountains gets snow.
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The guck is gone from the air, the streets are cleaned, and, if things are really wet and cold, the local mountains gets snow.
There are times… 2008
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And wash your hands all the time -- all the time -- because you just never know what kind of guck (ph) is out there.
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Here is a nest for a bird, ( "guck" all birds are ducks)
Yarn Miracle 2010
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The horns will freeze, the oil congealing into thick guck in the valves and slides.
Cymbals Guy Paul Hargreaves 2010
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"I don't know what the heck he was eating, all I know is when I came out of the subway I had all kinds of guck all over me," he recalled.
Riders Getting Fed Up Sumathi Reddy 2012
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Britain does itself no favors by complaining about a falling share price and lost dividends while eleven Americans lie dead, thousands of Gulf Coast residents have lost their livelihood, and innumerable wildlife wash up ashore drenched in BP guck.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: BP, Gadhafi, and Britain's Oil Comeuppance 2010
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Ultimately, I think there are two kinds of people in this world: those that have the patience for picking pumpkin guck off of seeds by hand, and those that don't.
Toasted Pumpkin Seeds to the 3rd power Sarah Lenz 2008
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Britain does itself no favors by complaining about a falling share price and lost dividends while eleven Americans lie dead, thousands of Gulf Coast residents have lost their livelihood, and innumerable wildlife wash up ashore drenched in BP guck.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: BP, Gadhafi, and Britain's Oil Comeuppance Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2010
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Britain does itself no favors by complaining about a falling share price and lost dividends while eleven Americans lie dead, thousands of Gulf Coast residents have lost their livelihood, and innumerable wildlife wash up ashore drenched in BP guck.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: BP, Gadhafi, and Britain's Oil Comeuppance 2010
oroboros commented on the word guck
A foolish thing, according to NPR's Says You.
October 29, 2011