English Explanatory Dictionary

thunk

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. past participle of think
intj
  1. Representing the dull sound of the impact of a heavy object striking another and coming to an immediate standstill, with neither object being broken by the impact.
verb
  1. To strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound.
noun
  1. A delayed computation.
  2. In the Scheme programming language, a function or procedure taking no arguments.
  3. A specialized subroutine that one software module uses to execute code in another module.
verb
  1. To delay (a computation).
  2. To execute (code) by means of a thunk.

Pronunciation

/θʌŋk/ en-us-thunk.ogg

Word forms

thunk thunks thunking thunked

Etymology

By analogy with past participles ending in "-unk", such as drunk and sunk.

Related words

thunking

Derived words

who would have thunk it thunker
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