Sampan vs Junk - What's the difference?
sampan | junk |
Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash.
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A collection of miscellaneous items of little value.
(slang) Any narcotic drug, especially heroin.
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(slang) Genitalia.
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(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 nautical terms the difference between sampan and junk
is that sampan is a flat-bottomed Chinese wooden boat propelled by two oars while junk is a Chinese sailing vessel.As a verb junk is
to throw away.sampan
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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)