See zonk on Wiktionary
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{
"audio": "En-au-zonk.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ad/En-au-zonk.ogg/En-au-zonk.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/En-au-zonk.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒŋk"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "čeren Petǎr",
"sense": "unfavorable card or token",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "черен Петър"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "unfavorable card or token",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "plíva"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "unfavorable card or token",
"tags": [
"Flemish",
"colloquial",
"feminine"
],
"word": "schijtkaart"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "unfavorable card or token",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Zonk"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "unfavorable card or token",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Niete"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "unfavorable card or token",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Trostpreis"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "unfavorable card or token",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Arschkarte"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "unfavorable card or token",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Schwarzer Peter"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "unfavorable card or token",
"word": "Lucifer"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "unfavorable card or token",
"word": "svarte petter"
}
],
"word": "zonk"
}
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English onomatopoeias",
"English terms with unknown etymologies",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ɒŋk",
"Rhymes:English/ɒŋk/1 syllable",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "zonk out"
},
{
"word": "zonked"
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "en"
},
"expansion": "Unknown",
"name": "unk"
}
],
"etymology_text": "First attested around 1950. Unknown origin, likely imitative, of echoic origin.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "zonks",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "zonking",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "zonked",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "zonked",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
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"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To hit hard ."
],
"links": [
[
"hit",
"hit"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, slang) To hit hard ."
],
"tags": [
"slang",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
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"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To make (someone) sleepy or delirious, to put into a stupor ."
],
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[
"delirious",
"delirious"
],
[
"stupor",
"stupor"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, slang) To make (someone) sleepy or delirious, to put into a stupor ."
],
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"slang",
"transitive"
]
},
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"English slang",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
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"text": "After two hours of studying, I zonked out.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To become exhausted, sleepy or delirious."
],
"links": [
[
"exhausted",
"exhausted"
],
[
"sleepy",
"sleepy"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, slang, usually followed by “out”) To become exhausted, sleepy or delirious."
],
"raw_tags": [
"followed by “out”"
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"slang",
"usually"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/zɒŋk/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"audio": "En-au-zonk.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ad/En-au-zonk.ogg/En-au-zonk.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/En-au-zonk.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒŋk"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "make sleepy or delirious",
"word": "schläfrig machen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "make sleepy or delirious",
"word": "müde machen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "become exhausted",
"word": "müde werden"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "become exhausted",
"word": "wegtreten"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "become exhausted",
"word": "schläfrig werden"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "become exhausted",
"word": "schlapp werden"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ustatʹ",
"sense": "become exhausted",
"word": "устать"
}
],
"word": "zonk"
}
{
"etymology_text": "From the name of the mascot in the form of a cat in the bag, which served as a worthless prize in Idź na całość, the Polish version of the game show Let's Make a Deal.",
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{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "pl-decl-noun-m-anml",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "zonk",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "zonki",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "zonka",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "zonków",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "zonkowi",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "zonkom",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "zonka",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "zonki",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "zonkiem",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "zonkami",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"instrumental",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "zonku",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "zonkach",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"locative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "zonku",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "zonki",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {
"1": "m-anml"
},
"expansion": "zonk m animal",
"name": "pl-noun"
}
],
"hyphenation": [
"zonk"
],
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{
"args": {},
"name": "pl-decl-noun-m-anml"
}
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"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Polish 1-syllable words",
"Polish animal nouns",
"Polish colloquialisms",
"Polish entries with incorrect language header",
"Polish lemmas",
"Polish links with manual fragments",
"Polish links with redundant alt parameters",
"Polish links with redundant wikilinks",
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"Polish nouns",
"Polish terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Polish terms with audio pronunciation",
"Rhymes:Polish/ɔŋk",
"Rhymes:Polish/ɔŋk/1 syllable"
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"glosses": [
"bummer (disappointment)"
],
"links": [
[
"bummer",
"bummer"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial) bummer (disappointment)"
],
"tags": [
"animal-not-person",
"colloquial",
"masculine"
],
"wikipedia": [
"Let's Make a Deal",
"pl:Idź na całość"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈzɔŋk/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔŋk"
}
],
"word": "zonk"
}
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