gonk (plural gonks)
A small furry toy like an ersatz teddy bear, popularized in wartime when production of real teddies stops.
A stupid, ignorant, and/or boorish person.
(NZ, military, slang) A sleep; a nap.
(UK, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
• (stupid person): see dork / idiot
• (prostitute's client): see prostitute's client
gonk (third-person singular simple present gonks, present participle gonking, simple past and past participle gonked)
(UK, slang, with "out") To sleep.
(US, slang) To lie; to tell an untruth
• Kong, kong
Source: Wiktionary
13 April 2025
(noun) an instance or single occasion for some event; “this time he succeeded”; “he called four times”; “he could do ten at a clip”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
