bonk
See also: Bonk
English
Etymology
Of imitative origin. Compare English bang, bounce, bump.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɒŋk
Verb
bonk (third-person singular simple present bonks, present participle bonking, simple past and past participle bonked)
- (informal) To strike or collide with something.
- (informal, chiefly UK) To have sexual intercourse.
- Synonyms: boink, discuss Uganda, have sex; see also Thesaurus:copulate, Thesaurus:copulate with
- 1993, Mike Leigh, Naked:
- Sophie (Katrin Cartlidge) What is a proper relationship? / Louise (Lesley Sharp): Living with someone who talks to you after they've bonked ya.
- (skateboarding, snowboarding) To hit something with the front of the board, especially in midair.
- (informal, sports) To experience sudden and severe fatigue in an endurance sports event due to glycogen depletion.
- Synonym: hit the wall
- 2004, Gary Erickson, Lois Ann Lorentzen, Raising the Bar, Jossey-Bass, →ISBN, page 29:
- I had eaten five of my six PowerBars. I was exhausted and famished. In cycling they describe what was happening to me as bonking: my body was out of fuel and had no more energy.
Derived terms
Translations
to strike or collide
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to have sexual intercourse
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Noun
bonk (countable and uncountable, plural bonks)
- (informal, countable) A bump on the head.
- (informal, countable) Any minor collision or blow.
- (informal, countable, chiefly UK) An act of sexual intercourse.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 2, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
- “ […] It’s not like I’m just looking for a bonk, is it? This is something a bit different.” ¶ “Quite,” said Nick—though bonk was a troublingly casual way of referring to something which preoccupied him so much.
- (informal, uncountable) A condition of sudden, severe fatigue in an endurance sports event caused by glycogen depletion.
- (countable) An animal call resembling "bonk", for example, the call of the pobblebonk.
Derived terms
Translations
bump on the head
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minor collision
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sexual intercourse
Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch bonc, bonck, bunck (“bone”). Cognate with West Frisian bonke (“bone”), Saterland Frisian Bunke (“bone”), German Low German Bunk (“bone”), Icelandic buna (“ox-bone”).
Noun
bonk m (plural bonken, diminutive bonkje n)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
bonk
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