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Dank
Definitions
- 1 Dark, damp and humid.
"The dank cave was chilly and spooky."
- 2 Moist and sticky, (by extension) highly potent. figuratively
"That was dank bud."
- 3 Great, awesome. Internet, ironic, often
- 4 Expounding right-wing views in a cool way; based.
"His house organ Breitbart and a host of Trump-right websites and news outlets sang praises to his dank genius."
- 1 unpleasantly cool and humid wordnet
- 2 of high quality especially of marijuana wordnet
- 1 Moisture; humidity; water. uncountable
"The ravviſh danke of clumzie vvinter ramps / The fluent ſummers vaine: and drizling ſleete / Chilleth the vvan bleak cheek of the numd earth, / VVhilſt ſnarling guſts nibble the iuyceles leaues, / From the nak't ſhuddring branch; […]"
- 2 A small silver coin formerly used in Persia. historical
- 3 Dankness; a dark, moist and usually unpleasant atmosphere. uncountable
"You ain't thinking of getting rid of the dank, are you, Moe?"
- 4 Strong, high-quality cannabis. slang, uncountable
"I got more growin' pains than Maggie / 'Cause homies nag me to take the dank out of the baggie"
- 1 To moisten, dampen; used of mist, dew etc. intransitive, obsolete
Etymology
From Middle English danke (“wet, damp; dampness, moisture”), probably from North Germanic, related to Swedish dank (“marshy spot”), Icelandic dökk (“pool”), Old Norse dǫkk (“pit, depression”), from Proto-Germanic *dankwaz (“dark”). However, some trace it to a West Germanic source such as Dutch damp (“vapor”) or Middle High German damph, both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dampaz (“smoke, steam, vapor”). Modern slang senses derived from the drug sense; compare based (“awesome, especially in a right-wing context online”) from drug terminology freebased.
From Middle English danke (“wet, damp; dampness, moisture”), probably from North Germanic, related to Swedish dank (“marshy spot”), Icelandic dökk (“pool”), Old Norse dǫkk (“pit, depression”), from Proto-Germanic *dankwaz (“dark”). However, some trace it to a West Germanic source such as Dutch damp (“vapor”) or Middle High German damph, both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dampaz (“smoke, steam, vapor”). Modern slang senses derived from the drug sense; compare based (“awesome, especially in a right-wing context online”) from drug terminology freebased.
From Middle English danken, from the adjective (see above).
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