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発音

• IPA: /ɡuːk/; IPA: /ɡʊk/ (less common)
• 韻: -uːk, -ʊk

名詞

gook (plural gooks)

1. (slang, vulgar, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of (South) East Asian descent (originally revolutionaries of the Katipunan then generally to any native of the Philippines, after the enemy and collaborators hid amongst them), but now especially:
   1. (US, derogatory) A Korean person (especially the North Koreans during the Korean War).
      • 2002, Colin Baker, Wild Goose: The Life and Death of Hugh Van Oppen, pages 59–60:

        A few days later he had a 'damned good party' at NORMASH, drinking brandy, and he then 'beat up a Gook [Korean] village.' This resulted in an 'awful hangover all day', […] Later, he walked back to his unit, alone at three o'clock in the morning, having 'swiped a Gook torch.'

   2. (US, derogatory) A Vietnamese person (including, but not limited to, Vietcong in the Vietnam War).

      Synonym: dink

      • 1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 57:

        Of course, I've got so many confirmed kills I lost count. Nobody believes me because the gooks drag off their dead.

2. (dated, derogatory) A foreigner (to the speaker), especially the (enemy) natives of a place the speaker's military is at war with or in.
   • 1924 September 30, John Webb, “Henri II”, in Adventure, volume 48, number 6, page 101:

     "Haiti is a country with a history, […] " "but how about the Marines, and the gendarmerie; aren't they on the job?" […] "You know darn well a civilian can't get away with handling a gook like a Marine can; […] "

   • 1999, M. Paul Holsinger, War and American Popular Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 204:

     In scenes [in Flight, 1929] based on the Marines' slaughter of several hundred Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Ocotal in July 1927, the two heroes, who are rivals for the hand of a vivacious nurse (Lila Lee), repeatedly attack the "gooks" in support of their comrades on the ground.

   1. (Rhodesia, derogatory) A black insurgent in the Rhodesian Bush War.
      • 1997, Dick Gledhill, One Commando: Rhodesia's Last Years & the Guerilla War It Never Lost, page 55:

        "But shit, man, don't we do a fucking good job of it. Jesus, we slew long gooks this last trip," quipped Mark.

使用する際の注意点

• In modern US usage, gook refers to an Asian, especially to a Vietnamese person in the context of the Vietnam War (particularly the Viet Cong). It is generally considered to be highly offensive.

派生語

• gookland
• gooky

語源 2

Possible blend of goop +‎ gunk, or related to gobbledygook.

発音

• IPA: /ɡʊk/, /ɡuːk/
• 韻: -ʊk, -uːk

名詞

gook (countable and uncountable, plural gooks)

1. (informal) Grime or mud.
   • 1983, Len O'Connor, A Reporter in Sweet Chicago‎, →ISBN, page 351:

     "Roost No More" was a yellow gook that Joe's people would spread around, for a fee, on the ledges of houses and commercial buildings plagued by pigeons.

派生語

• gooky
• gook up

語源 3

名詞

gook (plural gooks)

1. (slang) A dull or hapless person.
   • 1949, P.G. Wodehouse, The Mating Season:

     the poor old gook was spitting blood

語源 4

名詞

gook (plural gooks)

1. (Cornwall) A bonnet (headwear).
   • 1893, Dolly Pentreath, In a Cornish Township with Old Vogue Folk, page 26:

     Some say 'Mar Teazer do live in pattens and gook; must go to bed in 'em I'm thinking!

参考

• garbley gook (probably etymologically unrelated)
• gook wagon (probably etymologically unrelated)

語源 5

From the manner whereby a small child, still developing its speech, would mispronounce /l/ (spoken with the tip of the tongue behind the teeth) as /ɡ/ (spoken with the back of the tongue on the palate), which happens if one tries to say look without moving the tongue forward (which in one's first few years is easier to do than otherwise). Compare also wook and wike for “look” and “like”, in which cases the tongue is stationary and only the lips move.

動詞

gook (third-person singular simple present gooks, present participle gooking, simple past and past participle gooked)

1. (ambitransitive, childish) Synonym of look.

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