eye gunk

English

Noun

eye gunk (uncountable)

1. (colloquial, informal) rheum of the eye; sleep

   I woke up this morning with so much eye gunk on my face.

   • 2019, Tracey Squaire, chapter 15, in The Complete Guide to Beagles: Choosing, Housebreaking, Training, Feeding ...:

     Signs that the eye gunk is something more to be worried about is if the gunk has a pus-like consistency, is a white-gray mucus, is yellow or green, or if your Beagle has unusually red eyes.

2. (colloquial, informal) eye makeup; eye shadow, mascara

   I think she is wearing a little too much eye gunk.

   • 1963, Dayton Rommel, Cry of Peacocks, page 346:

     "Would you mind not wearing so much eye gunk? Just because you're mad at me. And I hate that yellow dress."
     "Mavis does her eyes up like a circus clown."

Translations

rheum of the eye

• Bulgarian: гу́рели pl (gúreli), гу́рли pl (gúrli)
• Hebrew: קורי שינה (kore shiná) Literally, “sleep-cobwebs”, לפלוף (liflúf)
• Tibetan: མིག་སྐྱག (mig skyag) Literally, “eye shit”

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