Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Disagreeably damp or humid. See Synonyms at wet.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Damp; moist; saturated with cold moisture.
- Synonyms Damp, Humid, etc. See moist.
- n. Cold moisture; unpleasant humidity.
- n. Water, in general.
- To make dank; moisten.
Wiktionary
- v. obsolete (intransitive) To moisten, dampen; used of mist, dew etc.
- n. A small silver coin formerly used in Persia.
- adj. dark, damp and humid.
- adj. figuratively highly potent
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Damp; moist; humid; wet.
- n. obsolete Moisture; humidity; water.
- n. A small silver coin current in Persia.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. unpleasantly cool and humid
Etymologies
- From Middle English danke, first recorded circa 1310 (as verb; circa 1410 as noun), Germanic: perhaps from Scandinavian or German. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, probably of Scandinavian origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But the compound subject is really equivalent to "the willow with its osiers dank," osiers being water-willows or their branches. ~dank~, damp: comp.”
“Actually to call it dank is a tad untrue - we were blessed with clear blue skies which lit up leaves, hips and haws.”
“Remember when flat, uncomfortable inclining lifts were installed in dank, musty homes?”
“The second excerpt (located at a separate URL) describes his encounter with a homeless man living in dank tunnel near the airport, who has fashioned himself an elevated bed that manages to stay above the water line even during major flooding.”
“David, #253: Ah, yes -- when Houston gets cold, it also tends to get dank, which is worse.”
“Doctors wheel a girl through what can only be described as a dank dungeon.”
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“It was delightful and satisfying to come into the spacious and cozy livingroom, filled with overstuffed easychairs and comfortable couches, warmed by the most efficient of centralheating systems or to use one of the perfectly appointed bathrooms whose every fixture was the best money could buy and recall the dank stone floors and walls leading up to a mammoth and -- from a thermal point of view -- perfectly useless fireplace flanked by the coatsofarms of deadandgone gentry who were content to shuffle out on inclement mornings to answer nature's calls in chilly outhouses.”
“Although any beer with "dank" in its name seems to me to have limited commerical appeal.”
“There's something kind of dank and nasty about "under the sink"....”
“No given aspect of my life is in any state more dire than "dank," though my commute to work this morning was miserable.”
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Tweets
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bilby Wordie has been known to countenance cruder circumstances. Jul 29, 2009
madmouth a noun as well, in cruder circumstances Jul 21, 2009
bilby
your life is your life
don't let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods offer you chances.
- Charles Bukowski, 'The Laughing Heart'. Dec 4, 2008