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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:
..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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