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-- Editor Having heard the term gedunk for the first time and queried its meaning and derivation in a recent conversation with Midwesterners, I decided to track it myself.
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As I recall, the gedunk was a confection devised either by Harold Teen or his diminutive sidekick, Shadow Smart.
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Referring to dictionaries old and new, I found gedunk listed only in Webster 3, with that frustrating label "origin unknown."
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Crews of those smaller vessels referred to the Dixie as a gedunk ship, because she had a refreshment stand where they might obtain delicacies like chocolate sundaes or gedunks.
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It consisted of a ladyfinger dipped between bites in a mug of hot chocolate, hence gedunk.
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Clifford L. Wolf Pacific Grove, California On my entry into the Navy in 1942, gedunk was already well established to refer to any ice-cream dish with toppings or additions.
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And the gedunk stand on the Dixie was forward, not aft.
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I never knew what he meant by that, but it seemed to me, a boy of about ten at the time, that gedunk was clearly a verb and in the imperative mood.
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Edwin A. Miles Birmingham, A.abama The elderly proprietor (or overage soda jerk?) would often accompany his delivery of treats to the kids at the counter with the hortatory "Gedunk, my children, gedunk!"
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T.L.A. Daintith Watchet, Somerset In reply to Milton Horowitz [XVIII, 2], gedunk originated in Harold Teen, a comic strip of the twenties, by Carl Ed, replete with cutie-pie flappers, porkpie hats, bellbottom slacks, and epigraphic yellow slickers and jalopies.
chained_bear commented on the word gedunk
"Some topped off the rather uninspired mean with a visit to the ship's soda fountain down on the second deck on the port side for one of those large scoops of ice cream in a paper cup generously smothered with thick syrup and chopped nuts—a dish known to all Navy men as a gedunk."
—Thomas Helm, Ordeal by Sea: The Tragedy of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, 1963 (New York: Signet, 2001), 20
November 12, 2008
geegee commented on the word gedunk
Living on a naval base we didn't have an ice cream truck, we had a gedunk truck that drove through the neighborhood. "GEDUNK" was spelled in colorful block letters on the side of the truck. From the truck we could buy soda pop (all flavors), candy and gum. There may have been other snacks as well - packaged bakery treats, chips, things like that.
August 5, 2009