eye gunk

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Noun

eye gunk (uncountable)

  1. (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.
  2. (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."

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