gookとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ɡuːk/; IPA: /ɡʊk/ (less common)
• 韻: -uːk, -ʊk

名詞

gook (plural gooks)

1. (slang, vulgar, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of (South) East Asian descent (originally revolutionaries of the Katipunan then generally to any native of the Philippines, after the enemy and collaborators hid amongst them), but now especially:
   1. (US, derogatory) A Korean person (especially the North Koreans during the Korean War).
      • 2002, Colin Baker, Wild Goose: The Life and Death of Hugh Van Oppen, pages 59–60:

        A few days later he had a 'damned good party' at NORMASH, drinking brandy, and he then 'beat up a Gook [Korean] village.' This resulted in an 'awful hangover all day', […] Later, he walked back to his unit, alone at three o'clock in the morning, having 'swiped a Gook torch.'

   2. (US, derogatory) A Vietnamese person (including, but not limited to, Vietcong in the Vietnam War).

      Synonym: dink

      • 1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 57:

        Of course, I've got so many confirmed kills I lost count. Nobody believes me because the gooks drag off their dead.

2. (dated, derogatory) A foreigner (to the speaker), especially the (enemy) natives of a place the speaker's military is at war with or in.
   • 1924 September 30, John Webb, “Henri II”, in Adventure, volume 48, number 6, page 101:

     "Haiti is a country with a history, […] " "but how about the Marines, and the gendarmerie; aren't they on the job?" […] "You know darn well a civilian can't get away with handling a gook like a Marine can; […] "

   • 1999, M. Paul Holsinger, War and American Popular Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 204:

     In scenes [in Flight, 1929] based on the Marines' slaughter of several hundred Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Ocotal in July 1927, the two heroes, who are rivals for the hand of a vivacious nurse (Lila Lee), repeatedly attack the "gooks" in support of their comrades on the ground.

   1. (Rhodesia, derogatory) A black insurgent in the Rhodesian Bush War.
      • 1997, Dick Gledhill, One Commando: Rhodesia's Last Years & the Guerilla War It Never Lost, page 55:

        "But shit, man, don't we do a fucking good job of it. Jesus, we slew long gooks this last trip," quipped Mark.

使用する際の注意点

• In modern US usage, gook refers to an Asian, especially to a Vietnamese person in the context of the Vietnam War (particularly the Viet Cong). It is generally considered to be highly offensive.

派生語

• gookland
• gooky

語源 2

Possible blend of goop +‎ gunk, or related to gobbledygook.

発音

• IPA: /ɡʊk/, /ɡuːk/
• 韻: -ʊk, -uːk

名詞

gook (countable and uncountable, plural gooks)

1. (informal) Grime or mud.
   • 1983, Len O'Connor, A Reporter in Sweet Chicago‎, →ISBN, page 351:

     "Roost No More" was a yellow gook that Joe's people would spread around, for a fee, on the ledges of houses and commercial buildings plagued by pigeons.

派生語

• gooky
• gook up

語源 3

名詞

gook (plural gooks)

1. (slang) A dull or hapless person.
   • 1949, P.G. Wodehouse, The Mating Season:

     the poor old gook was spitting blood

語源 4

名詞

gook (plural gooks)

1. (Cornwall) A bonnet (headwear).
   • 1893, Dolly Pentreath, In a Cornish Township with Old Vogue Folk, page 26:

     Some say 'Mar Teazer do live in pattens and gook; must go to bed in 'em I'm thinking!

参考

• garbley gook (probably etymologically unrelated)
• gook wagon (probably etymologically unrelated)

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