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▪ I. tonk, n.1 slang (chiefly Austral.).|tɒŋk|
[Etym. unknown.]
a. A term of abuse: a fool, an idiot.
1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 77 Tonk, a simpleton or fool. (2) A dude or fop. (3) A general term of contempt. 1963New Society 22 Aug. 5/1 ‘Bleg’, ‘thick boot’, ‘tonk’, and ‘greb’ are all of uncertain origin, but probably have euphemistic backgrounds. 1965[see nana2].
b. A homosexual man.
1943Penguin New Writing XVII. 83 The cook got my goat when he started trying to do the same thing. He was a tonk all right, just a real old auntie. 1965H. Porter Stars Austral. Stage & Screen 280 During the last ten years or more, there have been imported a coterie of untalented English homosexuals, English tonks unheard of outside their home country. 1970TV Times (Austral.) 15 July 41/3 There was also a homosexual (who was referred to as a ‘tonk’—thereby dating Mr Porter rather badly).
Restrict ‘Chiefly Austral.’ to senses in Dict. and add: c. The penis.
1970C. Wood Terrible Hard vii. 96 I'll never understand why a little scouse git like you should have such a bleeding great tonk. 1980J. Carey Original Copy 257 Most of his boyhood was spent worrying about the size of his ‘tonk’ (as he disarmingly dubs it).
▪ II. tonk, n.2|tɒŋk|
Colloq. abbrev. of honky-tonk.
1937[see smoke-shop s.v. smoke n. 11]. 1948Common Ground VIII. 38 The man who owned the little country Tonk was named Hamp... It was a one-room shanty store that doubled as a country bar room at night. 1960C. Hamblett in J. Pudney Pick of Today's Short Stories XI. 138 None of the other rundown bars and tonks had anyone remotely like Lia.
▪ III. tonk, n.3 colloq. (chiefly Sport).|tɒŋk|
[Echoic: see tonk v.]
A powerful hit or stroke, esp. with a bat (or racket). Also fig.
1922Chambers's Jrnl. XII. 801/2 Such a shot was, after all, merely a ‘plain, straight, ordinary sort of tonk’. 1977J. McClure Sunday Hangman ii. 21 Ach, sir; we'd have at least heard as much, if Tollie had been giving it a tonk. It's obvious that he was waiting for the pressure to come off first. 1987Squash World Mar. 23/3 That's not to say that we won't be any good at squash unless we can give the ball a mighty tonk.
▪ IV. tonk, v. colloq. (chiefly Sport).|tɒŋk|
[Echoic.]
trans. a. To strike. b. To beat or defeat. Freq. pass.
1910A. A. Milne Day's Play 114 Wanting four to win, I fairly tried to tonk the leather. 1926Galsworthy Silver Spoon iii. i. 224 ‘He seems to enjoy the prospect of getting tonked,’ murmured Michael. 1945Baker Austral. Lang. 207 Here are a few general expressions concerned with school life:..to get tonked, to receive corporal punishment. 1963A. Ross Australia 63 ii. 55 Our spinners have been tonked about yet again by uncouth country batsmen. |