Words similar to guk
Example sentences for: guk
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“Gook: Derisive slang for Koreans; a corruption of the Korean han'guk saram, which means Korean.
The GUK domain shows a high degree of similarity to guanylate kinase enzyme, which converts GMP to GDP using ATP as a phosphate donor.
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).
Like other members of this family DLG5 also has one SH3 and GUK domain.
I have no Korean or Vietnamese dictionaries, but it seems clear to me that the guk of the Korean Myguk (Cragg) and the Vietnamese quoc are all derived from an earlier form of Chinese.