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The American Thesaurus of Slang, by Lester V. Berrey and Melvin Van Den Bark (1943) defines gedunk as `to eat a sundae' [p.
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On my entry into the Navy in 1942, gedunk was already well established to refer to any ice-cream dish with toppings or additions.
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.
Gedunk appears as a noun in the second edition of the Thesaurus (1953) as a synonym for `ice cream,' suggesting it was derived from the earlier verb [p.
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