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ungunk

ungunk verb: to remove gunk from.

Verb

ungunk (third-person singular simple present ungunks, present participle ungunking, simple past and past participle ungunked)

  1. (informal, transitive) To remove gunk from.
    • Carmiesha just rubbed the baby's head. His little cornrows was so ashy and caked up with dust it was a shame. She was willing to take his braids out and re-do them, but she'd probably comb out all his hair trying to ungunk it.2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 127
    Synonyms:
    degunk

Synonyms of ungunk

Forms of ungunk

third-person singular presentungunks
present participleungunking
past participleungunked
pastungunked

Origin of ungunk

From un- + gunk.

Questions about ungunk

What does ungunk mean?
Ungunk means to remove gunk from.
What part of speech is ungunk?
Ungunk is a verb.
What is the past tense of ungunk?
The past tense of ungunk is ungunked.

Words near ungunk in the dictionary

  1. ungum
  2. ungummed
  3. ungumming
  4. ungummy
  5. ungums
  6. ungunk
  7. ungunked
  8. ungunking
  9. ungunks
  10. Unguraș
  11. Ungureni

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