Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Disagreeably damp or humid.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make dank; moisten.
- Damp; moist; saturated with cold moisture.
- Synonyms Damp, Humid, etc. See
moist . - noun Cold moisture; unpleasant humidity.
- noun Water, in general.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Moisture; humidity; water.
- noun A small silver coin current in Persia.
- adjective Damp; moist; humid; wet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete (
intransitive ) Tomoisten ,dampen ; used ofmist ,dew etc. - noun A small
silver coin formerly used inPersia . - adjective
dark ,damp andhumid . - adjective figuratively highly
potent
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective unpleasantly cool and humid
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But the compound subject is really equivalent to "the willow with its osiers dank," osiers being water-willows or their branches. ~dank~, damp: comp.
Milton's Comus John Milton 1641
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Actually to call it dank is a tad untrue - we were blessed with clear blue skies which lit up leaves, hips and haws.
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Actually to call it dank is a tad untrue - we were blessed with clear blue skies which lit up leaves, hips and haws.
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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Remember when flat, uncomfortable inclining lifts were installed in dank, musty homes?
Strange Stairs 2009
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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.
Boing Boing 2007
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David, #253: Ah, yes -- when Houston gets cold, it also tends to get dank, which is worse.
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Doctors wheel a girl through what can only be described as a dank dungeon.
Guilty Pleasure – Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers…with Paul Rudd?!? | MovieChopShop 2009
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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.
Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940
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Although any beer with "dank" in its name seems to me to have limited commerical appeal.
:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2010
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There's something kind of dank and nasty about "under the sink"....
Continued Adventures in Our German Kitchen C N Heidelberg 2008
bilby commented on the word dank
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'.
December 5, 2008
madmouth commented on the word dank
a noun as well, in cruder circumstances
July 21, 2009
bilby commented on the word dank
Wordie has been known to countenance cruder circumstances.
July 29, 2009