What does stonkered mean?
Stonkered means simple past and past participle of stonker.
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/ˈstɒnkəd/ · verb
simple past and past participle of stonker.
Mrs. Moreland was not often at a loss, but this time she felt completely stymied or stonkered – a word to whose derivation we have no clue and perhaps it isn't a real word, but we have always known it. Perhaps – if it is a real word – it comes from Golf, a language of which we are completely ignorant.
[…] she ate heartily, demolishing two helpings of very grey roast lamb and only announcing herself stonkered after scraping clean the large monogrammed plate of steamed pudding.
Use stonkered when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Stonkered means simple past and past participle of stonker.
Common synonyms include overcome, recreant, vanquished, wrecked.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Mrs. Moreland was not often at a loss, but this time she felt completely stymied or stonkered – a word to whose derivation we have no clue and perhaps it isn't a real word, but we have always known it. Perhaps – if it is a real word – it comes from Golf, a language of which we are completely ignorant.
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