gonk
/ɡɑŋk/noun, verb
gonk is a noun meaning “A small fuzzy toy, popularized during wartime” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-O-N-K, and it appears about once in every 33 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of gonk is gonks.
What does gonk mean?
noun
- 1
A small fuzzy toy, popularized during wartime.
- 2
A stupid, ignorant, or boorish person.
- 3
slangA sleep; a nap.
I'm going off to have a gonk.
- 4
UKslangA prostitute's client.
verb
- 1
USslangTo lie; to tell an untruth
You're gonking me!
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce gonk?
- UK /ɡɒŋk/
- US /ɡɑŋk/
- Australia /ɡɔŋk/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-gonk.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of gonk
- gonks plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- gonking participle, present
- gonked participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is gonk?
Gonk appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does gonk come from?
A proprietary name of arbitrary formation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).