JUNKY

addict, nut, freak, junkie, junky

(noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction; “a golf addict”; “a car nut”; “a bodybuilding freak”; “a news junkie”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

junky (comparative junkier, superlative junkiest)

Resembling or characteristic of junk; cheap, worthless, or of low quality.

Noun

junky (plural junkies)

(slang, pejorative) Alternative spelling of junkie

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

6 May 2025

HEEDLESS

(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”


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Coffee Trivia

The world’s most expensive coffee costs more than US$700 per kilogram. Asian palm civet – a cat-like creature in Indonesia, eats fruits, including select coffee cherries. It excretes partially digested seeds that produce a smooth, less acidic brew of coffee called kopi luwak.

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