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- adjective chiefly UK
impressively large ;exciting ; used by glider pilots to describe excellent weather conditions - verb Present participle of
stonk .
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Examples
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The London 2012 Aquatics Centre, designed by Zaha Hadid: ‘a space that can only be described as stonking’.
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Then, once spectators have negotiated the crowd management arrangements, which the building accommodates somewhat clumsily, they will enter a space that can only be described as stonking, a room big enough for more than 17,500 people.
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He will have glanced at Wednesday's data confirming that Britons are enduring a stonking wage cut, and seen that Keynesian logic reaffirmed.
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Radio 2 now specialises in stonking bank holiday lineups.
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There is a stonking profit to be made, said Sir Alan Hazlehurst, who chairs the committee.
MPs push to turn House of Commons into tourist attraction 2011
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It may be more helpful to consider it as a stonking showcase for Rennie and hope that it leads to better things.
Shattered – a stonking showcase for its mesmerising hero Lucy Mangan 2010
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The flipside is that China is running stonking trade surpluses with the US, Britain and the eurozone, worth $361bn £223bn in the year to April.
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Bookseller10 Gaol Street, Pwllheli, Gwynedd LL535RG, 01758613755The Bookseller has been serving locals in this small market town, and holidaymakers to the stonking scenery of the Llyn peninsula, for almost 30 years.
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When you have four stonking piles to maintain (Buck House, Windsor Castle, Balmoral in Scotland and her Norfolk country home, Sandringham), the money soon evaporates.
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When you have four stonking piles to maintain (Buck House, Windsor Castle, Balmoral in Scotland and her Norfolk country home, Sandringham), the money soon evaporates.
bilby commented on the word stonking
"Thanks for the chat. I've got to go and defend Tess for the umpteenth time. As Hardy originally wrote it she gets off. Listen, try and figure some extenuating circumstances as to your actions. If you can't, then try and think up some stonking great lies. The bigger the better."
- Jasper Fforde, 'Lost In A Good Book'.
November 24, 2008