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▪ I. stonk|stɒŋk|
[? Echoic.]
1. dial. Also stunk. (See quot. 1841). Also, a game of marbles; a coloured marble.
1841Jamieson Dict. Sc. Lang. II. 503/1 Stunk, the stake put in by boys in a game, especially in that of marbles. 1896Manch. City News 10 Oct., The game is called ‘stonks’ oftener than marbles. Ibid., A brown or other coloured marble is a ‘stonk’ and counts one.
2. Mil. slang. A concentrated artillery bombardment. Also fig.
1944W. Robson Let. 8 May (1960) 94 Our gunners were in readiness for the great stonk we requested at nightfall. 1947D. M. Davin Gorse blooms Pale 197, I wasn't so crackers I wasn't still listening for that bloody stonk to come screaming down on us. 1961Times 27 Nov. 6/5 The ‘stonks’ that Mr. Brown and his regional organizers are now going to bring down. 1975D. Clark Premedicated Murder iv. 65 ‘We were AGRA.’ ‘Army Group Royal Artillery..thickening up on other people's stonks and barrages.’ 1981Ld. Harewood Tongs & Bones ii. 45 You could never tell..if your arrival would bring down an artillery ‘stonk’ on your head.
Hence as v. trans. Mil. slang, to bombard with concentrated artillery fire.
1944Daily Tel. 15 May 6 Here was one more message before we left—that British troops on a captured ridge were being ‘stonked’ heavily. 1946R. Allen Home made Banners xi. 136 Moaning Minnie..was the name they gave to the German multiple mortars that stonked their positions, wherever they were, a minimum of twice and a maximum of several dozen times in each twenty-four hours.
▪ II. stonk(e, -en
obs. pa. tense and pple. of stink v. |