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Example sentences for: gook
How can you use “gook” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
To begin with, Mr. Henn's Mee Gook apparently is both Cantonese and Korean!
“Gook: Derisive slang for Koreans; a corruption of the Korean han'guk saram, which means Korean.
Henry Henn's “Me Gook” [XIV, 3] prompts me to ask which Chinese language his Asians were speaking.
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).
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.