Example sentences for: gedunk

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

  • On my entry into the Navy in 1942, gedunk was already well established to refer to any ice-cream dish with toppings or additions.

  • Having heard the term gedunk for the first time and queried its meaning and derivation in a recent conversation with Midwesterners, I decided to track it myself.

  • It consisted of a ladyfinger dipped between bites in a mug of hot chocolate, hence gedunk .

  • 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:


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