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▪ I. thunk, n.1|θʌŋk|
Joc. var. think n.
1922Joyce Ulysses 503 Have a good old thunk.
▪ II. thunk, n.2 (int. or adv.)|θʌŋk|
[Onomatopœic.]
A sound of an impact, either dull or plangent. Also int. or as adv.
1952B. Harwin Home is Upriver xviii. 178 He heard the dull thunk of wood against wood and felt the planking jar over his head. 1958‘W. Henry’ Seven Men at Mimbres Springs vi. 70 Presently the sodden ‘thunk!’ of an ax blade caving in barrel staves echoed wetly. 1968W. Garner Deep, Deep Freeze ix. 109 The door said thunk in a well-bred whisper. 1970M. Chisholm McAllister says No x. 93 The bullet tore through the canvas of the cover and went thunk into a barrel. 1971A. Ross Huddersfield Job 57, I heard the triple thunk of the undercarriage locks. 1979Herald (Melbourne) 23 Apr. 2 The familiar ‘thunk, zing, ding’ of a pinball machine.
▪ III. thunk, v.|θʌŋk|
[f. thunk n.2]
intr. To make a thunk; to fall or land with a thunk.
a1963S. Plath Johnny Panic & Bible of Dreams (1977) i. 133 With shovels and picks they crawled through the attic trapdoor and soon great masses of snow were thunking from the roof into the yard. 1972Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 14 Jan. 21/4 A quoit which thunks into the clay just to the left of the hob, leaning towards it, bevel downwards, is called a pot. 1976New Yorker 3 May 44/3 Last night, I slept nine hours, rain thunking on the tent.
Add: Hence ˈthunking ppl. a. and vbl. n. (used attrib.).
1982A. Tyler Dinner at Homesick Restaurant v. 157 Ruth slung the cleaver with a thunking sound. 1983J. Scott All Pretty People xv. 178 The air strikes chilly in spite of the thunking radiators. 1989D. Leavitt Equal Affections 26 The VCR makes a thunking sound, indicating that it has finished rewinding.
▪ IV. thunk|θʌŋk|
dial. and joc. pa. tense and pa. pple. of think v.2 Cf. thunk n.1
1876C. C. Robinson Dial. Mid-Yorks. p. xlii, Think..(Thuongk) The last form is less employed participially than in the past, in which tense it is of constant occurrence. 1887Lantern (New Orleans) 15 Oct. 3/2 Who'd a thunk it? 1908N. Duncan Every Man for Himself ii. 60 Leastwise, he thunk so, admittin' 'twas open t' argument. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake 504, I then tuk my taken⁓place lying down, I thunk I told you. 1967T. Savage Power of Dog xiii. 240 Phil had most excellent use of the hides after all. Who'd a thunk it! |