Example sentences for: gook

How can you use “gook” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • To call a brown-skinned person a gook may be reinforced by words in his own language, Chinese Mee Gook for “beautiful country,” or Korean Myguk (My = “America” + guk = “country”), but the word is extraordinarily derogatory, reinforced by, if not derived from the common English slang gobbledegook (the brown man's language) and gook (his food).

  • Henry Henn's “Me Gook” [XIV, 3] prompts me to ask which Chinese language his Asians were speaking.

  • Examples of this type of linguistic osmosis as GI , poop , honcho , gook , and gung-ho , all of which are now understood by a substantial number of Americans who have never been in the military service.

  • Henry Henn gets a linguistic maggie's drawers for “'Nam, Gook, Gung-ho: Nonsense” [XIV,2].


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