ronk

ronk

See also: Ronk

English

Verb

ronk (third-person singular simple present ronks, present participle ronking, simple past and past participle ronked)

  1. (UK, intransitive, slang) To stink; to smell very bad.
    • 2008, Mary Cavanagh, A Man Like Any Other: The Priest's Tale, page 101:
      It ronks to high heaven, but I've never been so honest as to mention it.

References

  • Tony Thorne (2014), “ronk”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London;  […]: Bloomsbury

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Etymology

Related to ronke (“to wank”).

Noun

ronk m

  1. wank (masturbation), an instance of

Derived terms

Verb

ronk

  1. imperative of ronke

References

  • Guttu, Tor (ed.) Norsk ordbok med 1000 illustrasjoner. Riksmål og moderat bokmål, 2nd ed., Kunnskapsforlaget, Oslo (2005). ronk is a parenthesized entry, i.e. the certified spelling runk is preferable but not mandated.
  • Noreng, Harald Norsk riksmålsordbok, vol. VI, Kunnskapsforlaget, Oslo (1995). Entry for 'ronke (with asterisk referring to runke). ronk is listed in prose sample for the runk entry.
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