English

Gonks from an Australian fairground in the late 1970s.

Noun

gonk ‎(plural gonks)

1. A small furry toy like an ersatz teddy bear, popularized in wartime when production of real teddies stops.
2. A stupid, ignorant, and/or boorish person.
3. A sleep (NZ Army slang), as in "I'm going off to have a gonk".
4. (Britain, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.

Synonyms

• (stupid person): see Wikisaurus:dork / Wikisaurus:idiot
• (prostitute's client): see Wikisaurus:prostitute's client

References

• Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 2007

Verb

gonk ‎(third-person singular simple present gonks, present participle gonking, simple past and past participle gonked)

1. (Britain, slang, with "out") To sleep.

   He gonked out on the bed.‎

2. (US, slang) To lie; to tell an untruth

   You're gonking me!‎

References

• Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 2007

Anagrams

• kong, Kong