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dunk

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Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
11
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/dʌŋk/

Definition of dunk

7 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To submerge briefly in a liquid.
    “I like to dunk my donut in my apple cider.”
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verb

  1. (transitive)To submerge briefly in a liquid.
    “I like to dunk my donut in my apple cider.”
  2. (transitive)To set down carelessly.
    “Parents shouldn't just dunk their kids in front of the TV.”
  3. (ambitransitive)To put the ball directly downward through the hoop while grabbing onto the rim with power.
    “The center spun quickly and dunked the ball with authority.”
  4. (Internet, intransitive)To put down on social media [with on].

noun

  1. The act or instance of dunking, particularly in basketball.
    “The point guard threaded a pass with pinpoint precision to the power forward for an easy dunk.”
    “She gave the biscuit a dunk in her cup of milk.”
    “To rattle the rats to the point where their stress response remained demonstrably hyperactive, the researchers exposed the animals to four weeks of varying stressors: moderate electric shocks, being encaged with dominant rats, prolonged dunks in water.”

name

  1. (countable, uncountable)A surname.
  2. (countable, uncountable)A locality in Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia, which includes the Family Islands; one is Dunk Island, named after George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax.

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Etymology

From Pennsylvania German dunke, from Middle High German dunken, from Old High German dunkōn (“to dip, submerge, dunk”), from Proto-West Germanic *þunkōn (“to make wet”), possibly from Proto-Germanic *þunkōną, from…

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From Pennsylvania German dunke, from Middle High German dunken, from Old High German dunkōn (“to dip, submerge, dunk”), from Proto-West Germanic *þunkōn (“to make wet”), possibly from Proto-Germanic *þunkōną, from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to moisten, wet”). Cognate with German tunken (“to dunk”), Latin tingō (“to wet, moisten”), Ancient Greek τέγγω (téngō, “to wet, moisten”). Related to taint, tincture, tint.

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