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Word: gook (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TALKIN' TO YOU, NIGGER," A voice hisses as the visitor walks through the gloomy passageway. "Faggot," taunts another. With every step comes a whispered insult, a mean murmur: "Loudmouthed kike! Lousy gook! Dumb Polack! Camel jockey! Red-neck bastard! Sexist pig! Goddam beaner! Get whitey!" A wolf whistle rings out and a leering voice calls, "Hey, baby." And with every message of hate, the feeling of alarm grows. "What you gonna do about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Museum of Hate | 2/15/1993 | See Source »

...moment. This book has appeared at a time that it's most profoundly needed by people. First of all, people are about to make a big decision, aren't they, in this election. I think that the convoluted folds of people's brains are filled with some sort of gook and glop. It's not possible for them to think clearly. And I think that laughter, the kind of laughter that my book generates, will serve as a kind of dental floss for the convoluted folds of people's brains so that they are able to make a perspicacious choice...

Author: By J.c. Herz, | Title: News Books | 10/22/1992 | See Source »

...nonformal; so is "deep doo-doo," slang for predicament. What is even more puzzling is Roget's failure to draw distinctions between the "nonformal" and the downright unacceptable. The fourth cites certain words as derogatory; the fifth does not. It lists such pejoratives as "spade," "nigger," "honky," "redskin," "gook" and "slant-eye" as nonformal and altogether ignores other, similar terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Satisfying Verbomania | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

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