Jungle vs Junk - What's the difference?
jungle | junk |
A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals.
(colloquial) A place where people behave ruthlessly, unconstrained by law or morality.
(slang) An area where hobos camp together.
(uncountable) A style of electronic music related to drum and bass.
Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash.
* {{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place
, date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist)
A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
(slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
* 1961 , William S. Burroughs, The Soft Machine , page 7
(slang) Genitalia.
* 2009 , (Kesha), (Tik Tok)
(nautical) Salt beef.
Pieces of old cable or cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.
(dated) A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece; a chunk.
In slang|lang=en terms the difference between jungle and junk
is that jungle is (slang) an area where hobos camp together while junk is (slang) genitalia.As nouns the difference between jungle and junk
is that jungle is a large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals while junk is discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash or junk can be (nautical) a chinese sailing vessel.As a verb junk is
to throw away.jungle
English
(wikipedia jungle)Noun
(en noun)- It’s a jungle out there.
Derived terms
* asphalt jungle * concrete jungle * it's a jungle out there * jungle cat * jungle cock * jungle fowl * jungle juice * jungle telegraph * jungle warfare * law of the jungle * rubber jungleSee also
* rainforestExternal links
* (projectlink) Article on Jungle (forest) * * ----junk
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (EtymOnLine).Noun
(-)citation, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}
- Trace a line of goose pimples up the thin young arm. Slide the needle in and push the bulb watching the junk' hit him all over. Move right in with the shit and suck ' junk through all the hungry young cells.
- I'm talking about everybody getting crunk, crunk
- Boys tryin' to touch my junk, junk
- Gonna smack him if he getting too drunk, drunk
- (Lowell)