eye gunk
English
Noun
eye gunk (plural not attested)
- (colloquial, informal) rheum of the eye; sleep
- I woke up this morning with so much eye gunk on my face.
- 2019, Tracey Squaire, chapter 15, in The Complete Guide to Beagles: Choosing, Housebreaking, Training, Feeding ...:
- 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.
- (colloquial, informal) eye makeup; eye shadow, mascara
- I think she is wearing a little too much eye gunk.
- 1963, Dayton Rommel, Cry of Peacocks, page 346:
- "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."