Example sentences for: gedunk

How can you use “gedunk” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Referring to dictionaries old and new, I found gedunk listed only in Webster 3 , with that frustrating label “origin unknown.”

  • 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.

  • Gedunk is obviously a humorous application of the past participle of dunk --Crullers “gedunked” in coffee--and by the 1930s it was obviously well established in the Navy to refer to any concoction involving ice cream, and especially to establishments dispensing it.

  • The following entry in Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner's Dictionary of American Slang (1960) attests to the currency of gedunk prior to the 1950s:

  • ..the cadets were `shown' chocolate sundaes from the `gedunk' stand back aft.”


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