conkn.1
/kɒŋk/, U.S. /kɑŋk/, /kɔŋk/ slang.
a. The nose.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > nose > [noun]
noseeOE
naseeOE
nebeOE
billa1000
nesec1175
grunyie?a1513
gnomon1582
nib1585
proboscis1631
handle to (also of, on) one's face1675
snot-gall1685
nozzle1689
bowsprit1690
smeller1699
snitch1699
trunk1699
vessel1813
index1817
conk1819
sneezer1820
scent box1826
snorter1829
snuff-box1829
bugle1847
beak1854
nasal1854
sniffer1858
boko1859
snoot1861
snorer1891
horn1893
spectacles-seat1895
razzo1899
beezer1915
schnozzle1926
schnozzola1929
schnozz1930
snozzle1930
honker1942
hooter1958
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 164 Conk, the nose.
1827 T. De Quincey On Murder in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 210/2 His conk was covered with carbuncles.
1837 T. Hook Jack Brag I. i. 10 Pitching an out-and-outer on the top of his conk.
1846 United Services Mag. May 13 Indignant at the liberty thus taken with his konk.
1859 Punch 37 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.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > [noun]
nolleOE
headOE
topa1225
copc1264
scalpa1300
chiefc1330
crownc1330
jowla1400
poll?a1400
testea1400
ball in the hoodc1400
palleta1425
noddle?1507
costard?1515
nab?1536
neck1560
coxcomb1567
sconce1567
now1568
headpiece1579
mazer1581
mazardc1595
cockcomb1602
costrel1604
cranion1611
pasha1616
noddle pate1622
block1635
cranium1647
sallet1652
poundrel1664
nob1699
crany?1730
knowledge box1755
noodle1762
noggin1769
napper1785
garret1796
pimple1811
knowledge-casket1822
coco1828
cobbra1832
coconut1834
top-piece1838
nut1841
barnet1857
twopenny1859
chump1864
topknot1869
conk1870
masthead1884
filbert1886
bonce1889
crumpet1891
dome1891
roof1897
beanc1905
belfry1907
hat rack1907
melon1907
box1908
lemon1923
loaf1925
pound1933
sconec1945
nana1966
1870 Putnam'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.
1873 T. 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 Myst. viii. 71 A persistent idea has been buzzing about in my conk.
1959 H. 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.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun] > a stroke or blow > specific on a person
buffet?c1225
flatc1320
boxc1330
rapc1330
plaguea1382
puncha1450
buffc1475
jowl?1516
beff1768
funk1790
fib1814
cob1828
one1876
biff1889
clump1889
one in the eye1891
conk1898
fourpenny one1936
a sock in the eye1972
kennedy-
1898 in Wright Eng. Dial. Dict. (at cited word) 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.
Derivatives
ˈconker n. [see -er suffix1] a blow on the nose.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking on specific part of the body > [noun] > on the head > on the nose
snitch1676
snitchel1676
conker1821
smeller1824
nozzler1828
noser1829
snorter1829
nose-ender1854
1821 P. Egan Real Life in London I. 616 Randall got a konker which tapped the claret.
ˈConky n. [see -y suffix6] a nickname given to a person with a prominent nose. (slang.)
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1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxx. 192 Conkey means Nosey, ma'am.
1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 127 The first Duke of Wellington was frequently termed ‘Old Conky’ in satirical papers and caricatures.
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conkn.2
/kɒŋk/, U.S. /kɑŋk/, /kɔŋk/ A fungus which grows on the wood of trees, esp. Trametes pini; also, the disease produced by this fungus. colloquial (originally U.S.).
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with trees
heart rot1808
white rot1828
sap-rot1838
red rot1847
conk1851
soft rot1886
pine blister1889
silver-leaf1890
leaf shedding1891
pine rust1893
leaf cast1894
partridge-wood1894
larch blister1895
needle-cast1895
sooty mould1901
white pine blister rust1909
larch needle cast1921
coral-spot1923
ink disease1923
pocket rot1926
wood rot1926
Dutch elm disease1927
oak wilt1942
ash dieback1957
the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > harmful or parasitic fungi > [noun] > causing disease in plants
bunt1800
Sclerotium1813
Alternaria1834
oidium1836
Septoria1836
conk1851
Rhizopus1854
snow-mould1855
vine-mildew1855
vine-fungus1857
bramble-brand1867
Microsphaera1871
wood-fungus1876
sphacelia1879
blue mould1882
orange fungus1882
cluster-cup1883
hop-mildew1883
powdery mildew1886
cladosporium1887
shot-hole fungus1897
verdet1897
wound-fungus1897
fusarium1907
verticillium1916
rhynchosporium1918
coral-spot1923
blind-seed fungus1939
sclerotinia1950
1851 J. S. Springer Forest Life & Forest Trees ii. iv. 99 There is a cancerous disease peculiar to the Pine-tree, to which lumbermen give the original name of ‘Conk’ or ‘Konkus’.
1902 Bureau 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.
1934 Forestry 8 155 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.
Derivatives
ˈconky adj. affected by this fungus.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [adjective] > of or having fungal disease
rustyc1503
smutty1597
smutched1620
slaina1642
smutty1667
sooty1697
rusted1763
spurred1763
smutted1766
leaf spot1846
fly-speck1855
ergotized1860
tagged1892
mummied1893
mummified1895
conky1905
rhynchosporium1918
Alternaria1924
Sigatoka1925
pasmo1926
sclerotinia1926
oak wilt1942
silver-leaf1946
wildfire1971
1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 33.
1945 B. Macdonald Egg & I (1946) 50 Fallen firs, six and seven feet in diameter and conky in the middle.
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conkv.1
slang.
transitive. To punch on the nose; to hit.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking on specific part of the body > strike on specific part of body [verb (transitive)] > on the head > on the nose
snitchel1699
conk1821
1821 P. Egan Boxiana III. 338 Spring however conked his opponent, when they closed.
1898 in Wright Eng. Dial. Dict. (at cited word) A'll conk ye if ye do it again, so there!
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 13 Nick couldn't have conked anyone with his football.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
conkv.2
colloquial.β. 1917 E. C. Middleton Glorious Exploits 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.1919 Air Pie 93 What would you do if your engine ‘konked’ out at 20,000 feet?1925 E. Fraser & J. 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.1942 C. 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.
intransitive. To break down, give out, fail, or show signs of failing; to die, collapse, or lose consciousness. Also figurative. Also with out.
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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]
forsweltc888
sweltc888
adeadeOE
deadc950
wendeOE
i-wite971
starveOE
witea1000
forfereOE
forthfareOE
forworthc1000
to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE
queleOE
fallOE
to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE
to shed (one's own) blood?a1100
diec1135
endc1175
farec1175
to give up the ghostc1175
letc1200
aswelta1250
leavea1250
to-sweltc1275
to-worthc1275
to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290
finea1300
spilla1300
part?1316
to leese one's life-daysa1325
to nim the way of deathc1325
to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330
flit1340
trance1340
determinec1374
disperisha1382
to go the way of all the eartha1382
to be gathered to one's fathers1382
miscarryc1387
shut1390
goa1393
to die upa1400
expirea1400
fleea1400
to pass awaya1400
to seek out of lifea1400–50
to sye hethena1400
tinea1400
trespass14..
espirec1430
to end one's days?a1439
decease1439
to go away?a1450
ungoc1450
unlivec1450
to change one's lifea1470
vade1495
depart1501
to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513
to decease this world1515
to go over?1520
jet1530
vade1530
to go westa1532
to pick over the perch1532
galpa1535
to die the death1535
to depart to God1548
to go home1561
mort1568
inlaikc1575
shuffle1576
finish1578
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
relent1587
unbreathe1589
transpass1592
to lose one's breath1596
to make a die (of it)1611
to go offa1616
fail1623
to go out1635
to peak over the percha1641
exita1652
drop1654
to knock offa1657
to kick upa1658
to pay nature her due1657
ghost1666
to march off1693
to die off1697
pike1697
to drop off1699
tip (over) the perch1699
to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703
sink1718
vent1718
to launch into eternity1719
to join the majority1721
demise1727
to pack off1735
to slip one's cable1751
turf1763
to move off1764
to pop off the hooks1764
to hop off1797
to pass on1805
to go to glory1814
sough1816
to hand in one's accounts1817
to slip one's breatha1819
croak1819
to slip one's wind1819
stiffen1820
weed1824
buy1825
to drop short1826
to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839
to get one's (also the) call1839
to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840
to unreeve one's lifeline1840
to step out1844
to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845
to hand in one's checks1845
to go off the handle1848
to go under1848
succumb1849
to turn one's toes up1851
to peg out1852
walk1858
snuff1864
to go or be up the flume1865
to pass outc1867
to cash in one's chips1870
to go (also pass over) to the majority1883
to cash in1884
to cop it1884
snuff1885
to belly up1886
perch1886
to kick the bucket1889
off1890
to knock over1892
to pass over1897
to stop one1901
to pass in1904
to hand in one's marble1911
the silver cord is loosed1911
pip1913
to cross over1915
conk1917
to check out1921
to kick off1921
to pack up1925
to step off1926
to take the ferry1928
peg1931
to meet one's Maker1933
to kiss off1935
to crease it1959
zonk1968
cark1977
to cark it1979
to take a dirt nap1981
the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > specifically of things, actions, or processes > specifically of a machine or mechanism
standc1175
to run down1665
stop1789
seize1878
to go phut1888
to cut out1910
conk1917
cut1938
trip out1940
phut1959
the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)] > go wrong > of equipment or machinery
to go wrong1809
to break down1831
conk1917
poop1927
1918 Chambers's Jrnl. May 301/1 If the engine conks we'll never make across the lines.
1918 E. M. Roberts Flying Fighter 334 Conked, a new word which is taken from the Russian language and which means stopped or killed.
1921 Blackwood's Mag. June 788/2 My engine began to conk a bit.
1924 R. Kipling Debits & Credits (1926) 167 The man was vi'lently sick an' conked out.
1928 R. Kipling Limits & Renewals (1932) 61 She stays—till she conks out.
1928 Punch 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.
1929 Daily Mail 9 Sept. 7 The old boat ‘conked out’ miles from anywhere.
1934 P. G. Wodehouse Right ho, Jeeves i. 15 The mystery had conked. I saw all.
1952 N. Morin & J. A. Smith tr. M. 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.
1963 Guardian 29 Oct. 16/7 The heating's conked at home, and..I feel the cold.
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