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gonk - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

gonk (plural gonks)

  • A small fuzzy toy, popularized during wartime.
  • A stupid, ignorant, or boorish person.
    • ✤ Synonyms: see Thesaurus: idiot, Thesaurus: dork
  • (New Zealand, military, slang) A sleep; a nap.
    • ✤ I’m going off to have a gonk.
  • (UK, crime, slang) A prostitute’s client.
    • ✤ Synonyms: see Thesaurus: prostitute’s client

Verb

gonk (third-person singular simple present gonks, present participle gonking, simple past and past participle gonked)

  • (US, slang) To lie; to tell an untruth
    • ✤ You’re gonking me!

Etymology

A proprietary name of arbitrary formation.1

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɡɒŋk/
  • (General American) IPA: /ɡɑŋk/
  • (Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /ɡɔŋk/
  • Audio (Australian): 🔊
  • Rhymes: -ɒŋk

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Footnotes

  1. “Gonk, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. ↩

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