Thesaurus results for GOOK

guck

noun

ˈgək

variants or gook

Definition of guck

as in mud

soft wet earth don't walk on that clean floor with guck on your shoes

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Recent Examples of guck The water levels varied with every step, rising from feet to knees to thighs in an instant, then back to shoe-sucking guck. — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 27 Feb. 2022 Rachael’s radical hypothesis is that menstruation is necessary to flush out bacteria and guck that enter women’s bodies along with sperm during intercourse. — Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 18 July 2019

Recent Examples of Synonyms for guck

Noun

Hurricane Lala tore roofs off houses, uprooted trees, covered roads in mud and rocks and left many households without electricity.

— ABC News, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026
The tailings from that process, called red mud, contain gallium.

— Sydney Sasser, Arkansas Online, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of mud

Noun

Pumping at high speeds creates a suction vortex (upconing) that violently draws heavy sludge into the production stream, fouling piping and destroying surface pumps.

— Siddharth Misra, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
Related Stories The report noted that sludge remained Saitex’s primary source of waste in 2025, and that the company repurposed 40 percent of that waste to produce bricks for garden walkways and concrete blocks for retaining walls.

— Jennifer Bringle, Footwear News, 21 Aug. 2026