dunk

See also: Dunk and dünk

English

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 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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʌŋk/

• Audio (RP)

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• Rhymes: -ʌŋk

Verb

dunk (third-person singular simple present dunks, present participle dunking, simple past and past participle dunked)

1. To submerge briefly in a liquid.

   I like to dunk my donut in my apple cider.

2. To set down carelessly.

   Parents shouldn't just dunk their kids in front of the TV.

3. (transitive, intransitive, basketball) 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. (intransitive, Internet slang) To put down on social media [+ on (object)].

Translations

to submerge briefly in a liquid

• Bulgarian: потапям (bg) (potapjam)
• Finnish: kastaa (fi)
• Greek: βουτώ (el) (voutó)
• Hungarian: márt (hu), mártogat (hu), tunkol (hu)
• Maori: kōpiro

• Russian: мака́ть (ru) impf (makátʹ), мокну́ть (ru) pf (moknútʹ) (to dip), окуна́ть (ru) impf (okunátʹ), окуну́ть (ru) pf (okunútʹ) (to submerge, to plunge), зама́чивать (ru) impf (zamáčivatʹ), замочи́ть (ru) pf (zamočítʹ) (to soak)
• Swedish: doppa (sv)

basketball

• Bulgarian: забивам (bg) (zabivam)
• Catalan: esmaixar (ca)
• Cebuano: hansak
• Finnish: donkata (fi)

• Greek: καρφώνω (el) (karfóno)
• Hungarian: zsákol (hu)
• Portuguese: enterrar (pt)
• Spanish: machacar (es), hacer un mate

Noun

dunk (plural dunks)

1. The act of dunking, particularly in basketball.
   • 2009 August 18, Natalie Angier, “Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

   The point guard threaded a pass with pinpoint precision to the power forward for an easy dunk.

Translations

basketball dunking

• Bulgarian: забивка (zabivka)
• Catalan: esmaixada (ca) f
• Finnish: donkkaus, donkki
• Greek: κάρφωμα (el) n (kárfoma)

• Russian: данк m (dank)
• Spanish: mate (es) m, donqueo m, volcada (es) f, clavada (es) f, machaque (es) m

Related terms

• dunk shot
• dunk tank
• reverse dunk
• slam dunk
• thunderdunk

See also

• alley oop
• jam
• slam

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʏŋk/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: dunk
• Rhymes: -ʏŋk

Etymology 1

Deverbal of dunken.

Noun

dunk m (uncountable, diminutive dunkje n)

1. opinion

   Zij heeft geen hoge dunk van de nieuwe soep.

   She doesn't have a positive opinion about the new soup.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English dunk

Noun

dunk m (plural dunks, diminutive dunkje n)

1. (basketball) dunk

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

dunk

1. first-person singular present indicative of dunken
2. imperative of dunken

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʊŋk/

Etymology 1

Noun

dunk m (definite singular dunken, indefinite plural dunkar, definite plural dunkane)
dunk n (definite singular dunket, indefinite plural dunk, definite plural dunka)

1. a knock (impact), or the sound of such a knock

Etymology 2

Noun

dunk m (definite singular dunken, indefinite plural dunkar, definite plural dunkane)

1. a keg

Synonyms

• kagge

References

• “dunk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Swedish

Etymology

From Middle Low German tunneke, a diminutive of tunne (“barrel”).

Noun

dunk c

1. a jerry can

Declension

Declension of dunk
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	dunk	dunken	dunkar	dunkarna
Genitive	dunks	dunkens	dunkars	dunkarnas

Noun

dunk n

1. a thud, a thump

Declension

Declension of dunk
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	dunk	dunket	dunk	dunken
Genitive	dunks	dunkets	dunks	dunkens

Anagrams

• kund