# bonk
## English
### Etymology

Of imitative origin. Compare English bang, bounce, bump.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (US):(file)
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /bɒŋk/
* (General American) IPA: /bɑŋk/, /bɔŋk/
* Rhymes: -ɒŋk

### Verb

bonk (third-person singular simple present bonks, present participle bonking, simple past and past participle bonked)
* (informal) To strike or collide with something.
* (informal, chiefly UK, transitive, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse (with).
    Synonyms: boink, discuss Uganda, have sex; see also Thesaurus:copulate, Thesaurus:copulate with
** 1993, Mike Leigh, Naked:Sophie (Katrin Cartlidge) What is a proper relationship? Louise (Lesley Sharp): Living with someone who talks to you after they've bonked ya.
** 1994, Richard Curtis, Four Weddings and a Funeral, spoken by Scarlett (Charlotte Coleman):Because most of the blokes I fancy think l'm stupid and pointless—and, so, they just bonk me and then leave me. And the kind of blokes that do fancy me, I think are drips. I can't even be bothered to bonk them. Which does sort of leave me a bit nowhere.
** 2022 October 10, Zoe Williams, “The Tory minister’s ‘bonking for Britain’ idea is a vile vision lurking behind cheeky Carry On imagery”, in The Guardian‎:But let’s not kid ourselves about bonking for Britain: this is just “the great replacement theory” with a tax code.
* (skateboarding, snowboarding) To hit something with the front of the board, especially in midair.
* (informal, sports) To experience sudden and severe fatigue in an endurance sports event due to glycogen depletion.
    Synonym: hit the wall
** 2004, Gary Erickson, Lois Ann Lorentzen, Raising the Bar, Jossey-Bass, →ISBN, page 29:I had eaten five of my six PowerBars. I was exhausted and famished. In cycling they describe what was happening to me as bonking: my body was out of fuel and had no more energy.

#### Derived terms

* bonkbuster
* nose bonk

#### Translations
### Noun

bonk (countable and uncountable, plural bonks)
* (informal, countable) A bump on the head.
* (informal, countable) Any minor collision or blow.
* (informal, countable, chiefly UK) An act of sexual intercourse.
** 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 2, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:“ […] It’s not like I’m just looking for a bonk, is it? This is something a bit different.” ¶ “Quite,” said Nick—though bonk was a troublingly casual way of referring to something which preoccupied him so much.
* (informal, uncountable) A condition of sudden, severe fatigue in an endurance sports event caused by glycogen depletion.
* (countable) An animal call resembling "bonk", such as the call of the pobblebonk.

#### Derived terms

* bonkable
* bonk bag
* bonk ban
* bonkbuster
* bonkbusting
* bonker
* bonk-on
* nose bonk

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* knob

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɔŋk/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: bonk
* Rhymes: -ɔŋk

### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch bonc, bonck, bunck (“bone”), from Old Dutch *bunko, from Proto-Germanic *bunkô (“pile, heap, lump”).
Cognate with West Frisian bonke (“bone”), Saterland Frisian Bunke (“bone”), German Low German Bunk (“bone”), Icelandic buna (“ox-bone”).

#### Noun

bonk m (plural bonken, diminutive bonkje n)
* lump, clod
* large, coarse man; gorilla, hulk
* large marble (large bead used in games)

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

bonk
* inflection of bonken:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative