dunking
- the action of plunging or being plunged into water or other liquid: Learning to canoe cost her several dunkings.
Origin of dunking
dunk
- to dip (a doughnut, cake, etc.) into coffee, milk, or the like, before eating.
- to submerge in a liquid: She dunked the curtains in the dye.
- Basketball. to attempt to thrust (a ball) through the basket using a dunk shot.
- to dip or submerge something, oneself, etc., in a liquid: She thinks it's vulgar to dunk. Let's dunk in the pool before dinner.
- Basketball. to execute or attempt a dunk shot.
- any flavorful sauce, dip, gravy, etc., into which portions of food are dipped before eating.
- Basketball. dunk shot.
Origin of dunk
Examples from the Web for dunking
Contemporary Examples of dunking
Sen. Paul has been getting a dunking in the media for his flip-flops on foreign policy.
“Dunking does not display basketball skill - only height advantage,” Allen wrote in his 1937 book Better Basketball.
Historical Examples of dunking
More men were ranged in rows along the plastered walls, dunking their heels against the cracked wooden baseboards.
Back HomeIrvin S. Cobb
This is a breakfast treat especially good for dunking in coffee.
Pennsylvania Dutch CookingUnknown
The dunking is done as rhythmically as the stirring, guests taking regular turns at twirling the fork to keep the cheese swirling.
The Complete Book of CheeseRobert Carlton Brown
When everything is stirred smooth and bubbling, toss in the kirsch without missing a stroke of the fork and get to dunking.
The Complete Book of CheeseRobert Carlton Brown
Large, crisp, hot potato chips make a pleasant change for dunking purposes.
The Complete Book of CheeseRobert Carlton Brown
dunk
- to dip (bread, etc) in tea, soup, etc, before eating
- to submerge or be submerged in liquid
Word Origin for dunk
Word Origin and History for dunking
dunk
1919, American English, from Pennsylvania German dunke "to dip," from Middle High German dunken, from Old High German dunkon, thunkon "to soak," from PIE root *teng- "to soak" (see tincture).
Basketball sense is first recorded 1937 as a verb, 1971 as a noun (earlier dunk shot). German-American Anabaptist sect of Dunkers (who baptize with triple immersion) first recorded by that name 1756.