eye gunk en · NOUN
Meanings
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(colloquial, informal, uncountable) rheum of the eye; sleep
I woke up this morning with so much eye gunk on my face.
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.
2019, Tracey Squaire, chapter 15, in The Complete Guide to Beagles: Choosing, Housebreaking, Training, Feeding ...:
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(colloquial, informal, uncountable) eye makeup; eye shadow, mascara
"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."
1963, Dayton Rommel, Cry of Peacocks, page 346:I think she is wearing a little too much eye gunk.
Translations (7)
bg гу́рли (rheum of the eye) · bo མིག་སྐྱག Literally (rheum of the eye) · he “sleep-cobwebs” (rheum of the eye) · he לפלוף (rheum of the eye) · he קורי שינה Literally (rheum of the eye) · bo “eye shit” (rheum of the eye) · bg гу́рели (rheum of the eye)