gonk
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɡɒŋk/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
[edit]gonk (plural gonks)
- A small furry toy like an ersatz teddy bear, popularized in wartime when production of real teddies stopped.
- A stupid, ignorant, and/or boorish person.
- (New Zealand, military, slang) A sleep; a nap.
- I'm going off to have a gonk.
- (UK, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
Synonyms
[edit]- (stupid person): see Thesaurus:dork / Thesaurus:idiot
- (prostitute's client): see Thesaurus:prostitute's client
References
[edit]- Eric Partridge (2007) “gonk”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 297.
Verb
[edit]gonk (third-person singular simple present gonks, present participle gonking, simple past and past participle gonked)
- (UK, slang, with "out") To sleep.
- He gonked out on the bed.
- (US, slang) To lie; to tell an untruth
- You're gonking me!
References
[edit]- Eric Partridge (2013) “gonk”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 2nd edition, volumes I–II, Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1017.
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