bonk
English
editEtymology
editOf imitative origin. Compare English bang, bounce, bump.
Pronunciation
editAudio (US): (file) - (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bɒŋk/
- (General American) IPA(key): /bɑŋk/, /bɔŋk/
- Rhymes: -ɒŋk
Verb
editbonk (third-person singular simple present bonks, present participle bonking, simple past and past participle bonked)
- (informal) To strike or collide with something.
- (informal, chiefly UK, transitive, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse (with).
- Synonyms: boink, discuss Uganda, have sex; see also Thesaurus:copulate, Thesaurus:copulate with
- 1993, Mike Leigh, Naked:
- Sophie (Katrin Cartlidge) What is a proper relationship?
Louise (Lesley Sharp): Living with someone who talks to you after they've bonked ya.
- 1994, Richard Curtis, Four Weddings and a Funeral, spoken by Scarlett (Charlotte Coleman):
- Because most of the blokes I fancy think l'm stupid and pointless—and, so, they just bonk me and then leave me. And the kind of blokes that do fancy me, I think are drips. I can't even be bothered to bonk them. Which does sort of leave me a bit nowhere.
- 2022 October 10, Zoe Williams, “The Tory minister’s ‘bonking for Britain’ idea is a vile vision lurking behind cheeky Carry On imagery”, in The Guardian[1]:
- But let’s not kid ourselves about bonking for Britain: this is just “the great replacement theory” with a tax code.
- (skateboarding, snowboarding) To hit something with the front of the board, especially in midair.
- (informal, sports) To experience sudden and severe fatigue in an endurance sports event due to glycogen depletion.
- Synonym: hit the wall
- 2004, Gary Erickson, Lois Ann Lorentzen, Raising the Bar, Jossey-Bass, →ISBN, page 29:
- I had eaten five of my six PowerBars. I was exhausted and famished. In cycling they describe what was happening to me as bonking: my body was out of fuel and had no more energy.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editto strike or collide
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to have sexual intercourse
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Noun
editbonk (countable and uncountable, plural bonks)
- (informal, countable) A bump on the head.
- (informal, countable) Any minor collision or blow.
- (informal, countable, chiefly UK) An act of sexual intercourse.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 2, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
- “ […] It’s not like I’m just looking for a bonk, is it? This is something a bit different.” ¶ “Quite,” said Nick—though bonk was a troublingly casual way of referring to something which preoccupied him so much.
- (informal, uncountable) A condition of sudden, severe fatigue in an endurance sports event caused by glycogen depletion.
- (countable) An animal call resembling "bonk", such as the call of the pobblebonk.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editbump on the head
sexual intercourse
Anagrams
editDutch
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle Dutch bonc, bonck, bunck (“bone”), from Old Dutch *bunko, from Proto-Germanic *bunkô (“pile, heap, lump”).
Cognate with West Frisian bonke (“bone”), Saterland Frisian Bunke (“bone”), German Low German Bunk (“bone”), Icelandic buna (“ox-bone”).
Noun
editbonk m (plural bonken, diminutive bonkje n)
Etymology 2
editSee the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
editbonk
- inflection of bonken:
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