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Examples
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Once she ran into the kitchen, and told cook to put back the dinner, so that she might run down the slonk to finish her conversation with him.
Spring Days 1892
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"You want to go down the slonk," whispered Maggie.
Spring Days 1892
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"You told me the last time I was here that you wanted to finish a conversation with him in the slonk."
Spring Days 1892
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"Sally told cook to keep the dinner back; she has gone down the slonk to speak to Meason."
Spring Days 1892
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Aunt Hester cast her eyes into her satchel, afraid even to think that her brother had intentionally misinterpreted her words; but Aunt Mary laughed at the idea of the slonk-hill, as a latter-day Golgotha, with poor Uncle James staggering beneath the weight of the Southdown Road, young men and all, upon him.
Spring Days 1892
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My dinner is put back so that Sally may continue her flirtation with Meason in the slonk.
Spring Days 1892
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We all know it will be the same a hundred years hence, but in the meantime you don't want your dinner put back, so that Sally may continue her flirtations in the slonk, "and Aunt Mary burst into a merry peal of laughter.
Spring Days 1892
she commented on the word slonk
Rare v.t., To swallow greedily.
August 6, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word slonk
I would like this word a lot except it reminds me of slunk, which I don't want to think about. (I read it in Sinclair's The Jungle. Now excuse me--I must go hurl.)
August 6, 2008
dontcry commented on the word slonk
Is hurl the new hork?
August 6, 2008
she commented on the word slonk
Perhaps you could think of slunk as merely the past participle of slink?
And what, a hork successor? Never.
August 6, 2008
reesetee commented on the word slonk
I think hurl is the old hork.
August 6, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word slonk
I'll get that slunk quote out sometime. It is so vile.
And yes, hurl is the old hork, but it's still good.
August 7, 2008
mollusque commented on the word slonk
What is it about SNK verbs? Sink, sank, sunk, slink, slank, slonk, slunk, stink, stank, stunk, skunk, spank, shank, shrink, shrank, shrunk. Such a skanky assortment.
August 7, 2008
bilby commented on the word slonk
You could dig around the phonesthemes and look for the Indo-European root.
August 7, 2008
Gammerstang commented on the word slonk
(noun) - A ditch; a deep, wet hollow in a road.
--Hugh Patterson's Glossary of Antrim and Down, 1880
January 15, 2018