dank – English noun declension

English noun forms of dank

Noun: dank
Singulardank
Pluraldanks

Sample Sentences

  • 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; […] [1600 or 1601 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], “The Prologue”, in Antonios Reuenge. The Second Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde [by Matthew Lownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, signature A2, recto:]
  • Yet oft they quit | The dank, and rising on siff pennons, tow'r | the mid aerial sky [1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC:]
  • You ain't thinking of getting rid of the dank, are you, Moe? [1995, Greg Daniels, Bart Sells His Soul (The Simpsons):]
  • Out of curiosity I follow him down into the dank of the basement. [2002, Wendel Messer, The Sink: The Last Days of Driving, Wendel Messer, →ISBN:]
  • Now, though, there was a sound that seemed quite out of place there in the dank of the forest. It was the most beautiful, harmonious sound that Susie had ever heard. [2006 July 4, Michele Baxter, The Chronicles of Serendipus: The Tale of the Secret Keeper, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 77:]
  • I got more growin' pains than Maggie / 'Cause homies nag me to take the dank out of the baggie [1995, “I Got 5 on It”, in Operation Stackola, performed by Luniz:]
  • Smoking mids will get you about three times higher than shwag, and same for dank—it'll be about six times higher than smoking some mids. [2015, Scott Jacques, Richard Wright, Code of the Suburb, page 9:]

Etymology

1. 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”).
2. Modern slang senses derived from the drug sense; compare based (“awesome, especially in a right-wing context online”) from drug terminology freebased. See: Middle English Nouns 'danke', Icelandic Nouns 'dökk', Dutch Nouns 'damp'.