Example sentences for: guk

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

  • DICTIONARY LANGUAGE MEANING MEANING OR SOURCE OR DIALECT `beautiful' `country' Chen Cantonese mei gwok Nelson Japanese bi koku Tan Taiwanese bi kok Stimson Middle mj<###> ku<###>k Chinese Stimson Old Mandarin m<###> kuiiq Stimson Modern m<###> (mei) kue (gwo) (Chen) Chinese [mei] [kuo] Cragg Korean my guk Nguyen & Vietnamese quoc Durand

  • 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).

  • The GUK domain shows a high degree of similarity to guanylate kinase enzyme, which converts GMP to GDP using ATP as a phosphate donor.

  • “Gook: Derisive slang for Koreans; a corruption of the Korean han'guk saram, which means Korean.

  • Like other members of this family DLG5 also has one SH3 and GUK domain.


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