Lunk

Quick meaning: Lunk is a noun meaning (derogatory, informal, originally US) A fool; an idiot; a lunkhead.

Meaning

(derogatory, informal, originally US) A fool; an idiot; a lunkhead.

Example Sentences

Nonetheless, the joyful lunk is clearly a character whom [Travis] Kelce is happy to play on television and podcasts.

“Shadow Ticket” opens in Prohibition-era Milwaukee. Our hero: Hicks McTaggart — former union buster turned muscle for hire, sensitive lunk, good dancer.

And the smiling lunk with his arm round the teenage girl – who he denies he had sex with later that evening – is living in a 30-room mansion on a 98-acre estate (which even his monarch brother reportedly doesn’t know how he pays for), joshing away at family funerals, and just sort of … riding it out, each time another of his lies about this story is exposed.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for lunk

Depending on context, synonyms include addle-brain, addlehead, airhead, baboon, beanbrain, beetlebrain.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lunkhead, loon, lamebrain, lummock, lout, lummox.

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