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Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A dull, hollow sound: the thunk of a metal pipe striking a tree.
- v. To make a dull, hollow sound: "Her hard shoes thunk on the stairs” ( Carolyn Chute).
- v. Nonstandard A past tense and a past participle of think.
Wiktionary
- v. humorous, nonstandard Past participle of think
- interj. Representing the sound of the impact of a heavy object striking another and coming to an immediate standstill, with neither object being broken by the impact.
- v. to strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound
- n. computing a delayed computation
- n. computing In the Scheme programming language, a function or procedure taking no arguments.
- n. computing a mapping of machine data from one system-specific form to another, usually for compatibility reasons, such as from 16-bit addresses to 32-bit to allow a 16-bit program to run on a 32-bit operating system.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a dull hollow sound
Etymologies
- Imitative. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“October 19, 2009 at 3:18 pm well, if the farghing latch won’t take……….ya gotta thunk it…..thunk it good echos of Devo waft through the ether”
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“Most of my relatives there have a mango tree and you can be woken up at night by a big "thunk" because mangos fall from the trees onto the rooftops.”
“Tas heard a loud "thunk," and light streamed into the tunnel ahead.”
“With a soft "thunk," the sailor's hatchet chopped through the rope that linked the barge to the ship.”
“It's too bad the last one went "thunk"...the cake is rather charming.”
“Nothing will make a driver stop faster than a resounding 'thunk' reverberating inside their aluminum can.”
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“So after doing a CPS transform and then trampolining it by returning a lambda wrapped "thunk", my interpreter *should have* handled an infinite tail recursive call *without* a stack overflow exception.”
“I heard this "thunk", and as I was starting to get up to see what it was, there was this "crash".”
“The veneers are prone to peeling and cracking, the cabinet door hinges tend to loosen and the doors bang noisily instead of shutting with a satisfying 'thunk'.”
“Thanks Tony, I never even "thunk" of it being in my Browser, had a few problems with some software on my computer and maybe this caused a ripple effect”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘thunk’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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onomatopoeias (1 syllable)
1 syllable words that mean what they sound like.
(dictionaried or un-dictionaried words | onomatopoeic in nature)
onomatopoeias (2 syllable) | onomatopoeias (3+ syllables)
gush, buzz, pop, woof, boo, bam, bang, bash, bump, clang, clap, click and 102 more...
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unk knowns
bunk, chipmunk, junkyard, funk, junket, crunk, chunk, kerplunk, hunk, preshrunk, spunk, countersunk and 53 more...
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Words from books I've read
These are some words I didn't know when I read and now I want to know!
Scribble, Newfangled, swift, swathe, budget, obstreperous, trickle, rank, covetous, scratch, hunch, dodge and 179 more...
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Onomatopoetics
Words formed in imitation of a natural sound.
bumble-bee, rat-a-tat, blurt, clink, chickadee, rub-a-dub, chirr, chug, keck, flim-flam, brekekekex, thunk and 94 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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thricedotted's Words
schadenfreude, vanquish, calumny, obsequious, rhapsody, expostulate, promontory, bordello, quintessence, catharsis, recapitulation, myriad and 937 more...
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Kapow! (I'm Batman)
Sound effects from the show. Swiped from here: http://www.batmania.com.ar/paginas/serie_onomatopeyas_cantidad.htm
aieee, aiieee, awk, awkkkkkk, bam, bang, bang-eth, bap, biff, bloop, blurp, boff and 69 more...
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Onomatopoeia
Words that imitate sounds.
bam, bamf, bang, boom, snikt, ping, plink, plonk, boing, whoosh, kaboom, crash and 68 more...
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Pop Whiz
Onomatopoetic.
pop, whiz, flush, bang, whap, splat, fizz, spritz, biff, clang, zoom, hiss and 17 more...
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milosrdenstvi Another humourously false irregular past participle (see also shat and brung), formed no doubt by analogy to sink - sunk, stink - stunk and drink - drunk. The simple past form thank does not exist, likely because of its use a separate word and the prevalence of thought as past tense even when this spurious participle is used. An argument could be made for a similarly spurious formation in plink - plunk. I could possibly attest to experience of that usage; however, both of those words are onomatopoeic enough that grammatical change between them seems subsidiary (as also in clink - clunk). No ablaut occurs for wink or link (or fink or dink for that matter, but they are a good deal more dialectical). Dec 18, 2010