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▪ I. conk, n.1 slang.|kɒŋk|
Also konk.
[Possibly a fig. application of conch, Fr. conque shell.]
a. The nose.
1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Conk, the nose. 1827De Quincey Murder Wks. 1862 IV. 33 His conk was covered with carbuncles. 1837T. Hook Jack Brag i, Pitching an out-and-outer on the top of his conk. 1846United Services Mag. May 13 Indignant at the liberty thus taken with his konk. 1859Punch XXXVII. 54 (Farmer) Lord Lyndhurst let fly and caught him..an extremely neat one on the conk.
b. The head. So off one's conk: off one's head; crazy.
1870Putnam's Mag. Mar. 301/1 The combatants struck each other with mawleys and bunches of fives upon the head, the nut, the cone, the conk, the canister. 1873T. E. Brown Betsy Lee 46 Isaac and Peter and the like of them, That's allis got conks like turkey's eggs. 1931‘E. Queen’ Dutch Shoe Mystery viii. 71 A persistent idea has been buzzing about in my conk. 1959H. Pinter Birthday Party ii. 29 Why are you getting on everybody's wick? Why are you driving that old lady off her conk?
c. A punch on the nose or head; a blow on any part of the body.
1898in Wright Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v., A'll catch ye a conk in a minute. 1947‘N. Shute’ Chequer Board ii. 18 It's this conk I got on the old napper.
Hence ˈconker [see -er1], a blow on the nose; ˈConky [see -y4], a nickname given to a person with a prominent nose. (slang.)
1821Real Life in London I. 616 Randall got a konker which tapped the claret. 1838Dickens O. Twist xxxi, Conkey means Nosey, ma'am. 1873Slang Dict. s.v., The first Duke of Wellington was frequently termed ‘Old Conky’ in satirical papers and caricatures.
▪ II. conk, n.2|kɒŋk|
[App. var. of conch.]
A fungus which grows on the wood of trees, esp. Trametes pini; also, the disease produced by this fungus. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
1851J. S. Springer Forest Life iv. 99 There is a cancerous disease peculiar to the Pine-tree, to which lumbermen give the original name of ‘Conk’ or ‘Konkus’. 1902Bureau of Forestry, Bulletin 33 15 The ‘conk’ or bracket seen on affected trees is the fruiting organ... Conk spores never enter through the bark, but usually through the scars of broken branches. 1934Forestry VIII. 155 Among the wood-rot diseases of conifers, that caused by Trametes pini, known variously as red rot, red stain, white pocket rot, ring scale, conk rot etc., is certainly the most destructive.
Hence ˈconky a., affected by this fungus.
1905Terms Forestry & Logging 33. 1945 B. MacDonald Egg & I (1946) 50 Fallen firs, six and seven feet in diameter and conky in the middle.
▪ III. conk v.1 slang.
[f. conk n.1]
trans. To punch on the nose; to hit.
1821P. Egan Boxiana III. 338 Spring however conked his opponent, when they closed. 1898in Wright Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v., A'll conk ye if ye do it again, so there! 1948C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 13 Nick couldn't have conked anyone with his football.
▪ IV. conk, v.2 colloq.
Formerly also konk.
[Of obscure origin.]
intr. To break down, give out, fail, or show signs of failing; to die, collapse, or lose consciousness. Also fig. Also with out.
1918Chambers's Jrnl. May 301/1 If the engine conks we'll never make across the lines. 1918E. M. Roberts Flying Fighter 334 Conked, a new word which is taken from the Russian language and which means stopped or killed. 1921Blackw. Mag. June 788/2 My engine began to conk a bit. 1924Kipling Debits & Credits (1926) 167 The man was vi'lently sick an' conked out. 1928― Limits & Renewals (1932) 61 She stays—till she conks out. 1928Punch 24 Oct. 466/1, I am not minimising the difficulty of Porlock, where the bus may conk out and be hauled up ignominiously by ropes. 1929Daily Mail 9 Sept. 7 The old boat ‘conked out’ miles from anywhere. 1934Wodehouse Right Ho, Jeeves i. 15 The mystery had conked. I saw all. 1952M. Herzog Annapurna xi. 168, I told Lionel that rather than conk out next day on the slope, it seemed far better for me to go down. 1963Guardian 29 Oct. 16/7 The heating's conked at home, and..I feel the cold.
β1917E. Middleton Glorious Exploits of Air 20 The latter [sc. the engine] ‘konked’. Down went the aeroplane. 1919‘Rafbird’ Zooms & Spins 19 I'm flapping from Puddlemarsh..—came down there with a konking engine. 1919Air Pie 93 What would you do if your engine ‘konked’ out at 20,000 feet? 1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 138 Konked (konked out), an Air Force term used of an aeroplane engine stopped working, failed, or broken down. Also a general expression, meaning ‘knocked out’, dead. 1942C. S. Lewis Broadcast Talks ii. iii. 49 Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top and it all slides back in misery and ruin. In fact, the machine konks. It seems to start up all right and runs a few yards, and then it breaks down.
▪ V. conk
see conch 7.
▪ VI. conk
dial. var. cank v. and n., chatter, gabble. |