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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: