Example sentences for: gook

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

  • 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.

  • A roughly approximate atonal pronunciation is thus mā-gwō . A family resemblance, to be sure, but far from “me gook.”

  • 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).

  • Based on the above I believe that Mr. Henn is probably correct in attributing Gook to an East Asian Mee Gook, for all of the area by the time of the T'ang was culturally if not politically under the sway of the Central Kingdom (Chungkuo).


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