Example sentences for: gedunk

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

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

  • 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.

  • In spite of the alternate g'dong cited by Wentworth and Flexner, the noun gedunk --as spoken on the U.S.S.

  • As I recall, the gedunk was a confection devised either by Harold Teen or his diminutive sidekick, Shadow Smart.

  • 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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