dank

[ dangk ]

/ dæŋk /

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adjective, dank·er, dank·est.

unpleasantly moist or humid; damp and, often, chilly: a dank cellar.

Slang. (of marijuana) excellent; high quality: There was plenty of booze and dank weed at the party.

Slang. (of an Internet meme) passé or clichéd; out of touch; having missed the cultural Zeitgeist.

noun

Slang. high-quality marijuana: We were just chilling out and smoking dank together.

Nearby words

danish loaf, danish oil, danish pastry, danish west indies, danite, dank, danke, danke schön, dankworth, danl., danmark

Origin of dank

1350–1400; Middle English probably < Scandinavian; compare dialectal Swedish dänka, Norwegian dynke “to moisten,” cognate with Old Norse dǫkk “water hole”

SYNONYMS FOR dank

1 wet, clammy, muggy, sticky, soggy.

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Related forms

dank·ly, adverbdank·ness, noun

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Examples from the Web for dank

She suffered no more beatings—just solitary confinement in an underground cell always dark and dank and cockroach-infested.
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It was dark, dank, the walls charcoal-colored, the feeling of a cave.
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Bodies in mortuaries, bodies in ponds, bodies under houses, and in dank boarding houses.
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Next thing he knows, the rebel is waking up in a dank cave centuries later.
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“It was dark and dank and the children were rarely, if ever, taken outside,” Wright notes.
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The night was dark and dumb, and, laden with salt scent, the dank vapor floated up from the sea.
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This was the dank, fat, savage island of New Gibbon, lying fifty miles to leeward of Choiseul.
A Son Of The Sun|Jack London
And he fought against that inarticulate misery, against the melancholy that settled upon him like a dank mist.
Burned Bridges|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Then, setting spurs to his stallion, he galloped through the dank cloud without a breath of it reaching into his nostrils.
The Red Tavern|Charles Raymond Macauley
Her face, in the depths of her scooping green barége bonnet, was dank with perspiration, and scowling with indignant misery.
Jane Field|Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

British Dictionary definitions for dank

dank

/ (dæŋk) /

adjective

(esp of cellars, caves, etc) unpleasantly damp and chilly

Derived Forms

dankly, adverbdankness, noun

Word Origin for dank

C14: probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Swedish dank marshy spot

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