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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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