gonk
English
![Photograph of three soft, furry toys.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Gonks_from_Australian_fairground_in_late_1970s.jpg/220px-Gonks_from_Australian_fairground_in_late_1970s.jpg)
Pronunciation
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Noun
gonk (plural gonks)
- A small furry toy like an ersatz teddy bear, popularized in wartime when production of real teddies stops.
- 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
- (stupid person): see Thesaurus:dork / Thesaurus:idiot
- (prostitute's client): see Thesaurus:prostitute's client
References
- 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.
Verb
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
- 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.