junk

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (uncountable, usually) Miscellaneous items of little value, especially discarded or unwanted items.
2. (attributive, uncountable, usually) Material or resources of poor quality or low value, especially resources that lack commercial value.
3. (uncountable, usually) Nonsense; gibberish.
4. (slang, uncountable, usually) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
5. (slang, uncountable, usually) The genitalia, especially of a male.
6. (uncountable, usually) Salt beef.
7. (uncountable, usually) 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.
8. (countable, dated, usually) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.

Verb

1. (informal, transitive) To throw away.
2. (informal, transitive) To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junkshop)

Concepts

jonque

pacotille

bric-à-brac

camelote

fatras

déchets

petits objets

débris

ramassis

déchet

poussière

fouillis

saloperie

rhum

truc

bibelot

chnouf

décombre

matériaux de rebut

ratatouille

vieilleries

slush

schnouff

cossin

sludge

slotche

sloche

chenolle

bagatelle

cacaille

bazar

came

cochonnerie

déblai

débri

ferraille

héroïne

🦸‍♀️

mendicité

nourriture

🍽️

ordure

🗑️

ordures

rebut

Synonymes

rubbish

trash

scrap

garbage

🗑️

refuse

mess

waste

litter

stuff

odds and ends

discard

detritus

debris

lumber

crap

dust

trifles

vessel

bric-a-brac

rubble

small objects

ditch

dreck

thrash

boat

⛵

pollutants

puncture

put away

retire

sailboat

⛵

sheet metal

ship

🚢

shit

💩

smash up

sweepings

tat

throw away

throw out

toss

total

totaled

trifling

waste material

wreck

old things

scotch

small things

toss away

cheap merchandise

broken piece

Traductions

rotzooi

Dschunke

troep

zooi

klerezooi

zootje

rommel

Abfall

σκουπίδια

Müll

ciarpame

cianfrusaglie

Ramsch

jonk

afval

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/d͡ʒʌŋk/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: junk

In summary

From earlier meaning "old refuse from boats and ships", from Middle English junk, jounke, jonk, joynk (“an old cable or rope”, nautical term), sometimes cut into bits and used as caulking; of uncertain origin; perhaps related to join, joint, juncture. Often compared to Middle English junk, jonk, jonke, junck (“a rush; basket made of rushes”), from Old French jonc, from Latin iuncus (“rush, reed”); however, the Oxford English Dictionary finds "no evidence of connexion".