Word.ws English Dictionary

dunky

/dʌŋki/

dunky adjective: suitable for dunking; dunkable.

Adjective

dunky (comparative more dunky, superlative most dunky)

  1. (colloquial, rare) Suitable for dunking; dunkable.
    • […] tea and a dunky biscuit.2018, Alex T. Smith, Mr Penguin and the Fortress of Secrets: Book 2, page 201

Noun

dunky (plural dunkies)

  1. (UK, dated, rare, slang) A condom.
    • Contraception was a taboo subject. The boys thought 'dunkies' (condoms) were poofy and anyway 'it's up to the girl to think about that because she's the one who gets the baby'.2019, Howard Williamson, Youth and Policy: Contexts and Consequences

Proper noun capitalized: Dunky

Dunky

  1. A diminutive of the male given name Duncan.

Forms of dunky

Adjective
comparativemore dunky
superlativemost dunky
Noun
pluraldunkies

Origin of dunky

dunk + -y

From Duncan + -y.

Words that rhyme with dunky

5 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about dunky

What does dunky mean?
Dunky means suitable for dunking; dunkable.
What part of speech is dunky?
Dunky can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce dunky?
Dunky is pronounced /dʌŋki/.

Words near dunky in the dictionary

  1. dunks
  2. dunks on
  3. dunks out
  4. Dunkwa
  5. Dunkwa-on-Offin
  6. dunky
  7. Dunlap
  8. Dunlavey
  9. Dunlaveys
  10. Dunlavin
  11. Dunlavy

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dunky (page history and authors); Dunky (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Dunky.wav.

Cite this entry: “dunky.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/dunky. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.