Gronk
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Gronk is a noun meaning (Australia, derogatory, informal) An unintelligent and callous person.
Meaning
(Australia, derogatory, informal) An unintelligent and callous person.
More Meanings
- (computing, slang, intransitive) Of a floppy disk drive: to produce mechanical sounds of operation.
- (computing, slang, intransitive, rare) To fail; to crash or go wrong.
- a harsh grating sound.
- To make a gronking sound.
Example Sentences
Repeats the last 40 lines of IRC output, in case your terminal gronked.
Juan Bautista handed the raven off to a perch—it gronked and protested—and took a seat on his couch.
[…] a disk drive gronked, her screen bloomed, and suddenly there was an icon in the upper right corner.
A raven gronked along the timber-covered ridge line, and a cool breeze swept down from the snow-covered peaks.
Word Forms
- gronks
- gronking
- gronked
Synonyms for gronk
Depending on context, synonyms include quork.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gonk, ocker, grub, galoot, booner, gomer.
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