Worthless Word for the Day

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the worthless word for the day is: gunge

[of uncertain origin; perh. associated with
goo, grunge, gunk, ect.] Brit. slang
any messy or clogging substance, esp. one considered
otherwise unidentifiable; also, general rubbish,
clutter, filth

"If you cook, ask yourself how often you have ever
required to add bottled sauce to anything. Yet here
were the convenience food-makers exploiting its
piquant flavour in over 400 diverse versions of
gunge."
- Ian Bell, Sunday Herald 27 February 2005


"It was true. Goliath had been been attempting entry
into the BookWorld for many years with but little
success: all they had managed to do was extract a
stodgy gunge from volumes one to eight of The World
of Cheese."
- Jasper Fforde, The Well of Lost Plots