stonkn.
/stɒŋk/ 1. dialect. Also stunk. (See quot. 1825). Also, a game of marbles; a coloured marble.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > marbles > [noun] > stake
stonk1825
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > marbles > [noun] > type of game
taw1709
chock1819
ring taw1828
knucks1840
spannims1847
three-holes1853
knuckle-down1859
bonce1862
spanners1881
stonk1896
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Stunk, the stake put in by boys in a game; especially in that of taw.
1896 Manch. City News 10 Oct. The game is called ‘stonks’ oftener than marbles.
1896 Manch. City News 10 Oct. A brown or other coloured marble is a ‘stonk’ and counts one.
2. Military slang. A concentrated artillery bombardment. Also figurative.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > [noun] > bombardment
battery1548
cannonade1562
cannonading1637
bombarding1687
bomb battery1695
bombardment1702
cannon fire1725
bombard1807
shelling1860
hate1915
barrage1916
box barrage1916
creeping barrage1916
area bombardment1918
area shoot1919
shoot1941
stonk1944
1944 W. Robson Let. 8 May (1960) 94 Our gunners were in readiness for the great stonk we requested at nightfall.
1947 D. M. Davin Gorse blooms Pale 197 I wasn't so crackers I wasn't still listening for that bloody stonk to come screaming down on us.
1961 Times 27 Nov. 6/5 The ‘stonks’ that Mr. Brown and his regional organizers are now going to bring down.
1975 D. Clark Premedicated Murder iv. 65 ‘We were AGRA.’ ‘Army Group Royal Artillery..thickening up on other people's stonks and barrages.’
1981 Ld. Harewood Tongs & Bones ii. 45 You could never tell..if your arrival would bring down an artillery ‘stonk’ on your head.
Derivatives
stonk v. Military slang transitive, to bombard with concentrated artillery fire.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > operate (artillery) [verb (transitive)] > bombard
ding1548
to lay battery to1548
cannon1567
thunder1590
cannonade1637
bombard1686
bomb1694
shell1827
plonk1874
plaster1914
bump1915
labour1915
water1915
barragea1917
paste1942
stonk1944
1944 Daily Tel. 15 May 6 Here was one more message before we left—that British troops on a captured ridge were being ‘stonked’ heavily.
1946 R. Allen Home Made Banners xi. 136 Moaning Minnie..was the name they gave to the German multiple mortars that stonked their positions, wherever they were, a minimum of twice and a maximum of several dozen times in each twenty-four hours.
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