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stonkered

UK/ˈstɒnkəd/

stonkered is the simple past and past participle of stonker.

Adjective

stonkered (comparative more stonkered, superlative most stonkered)

  1. (Australia, slang) Beaten, defeated; exhausted.
    • […] she ate heartily, demolishing two helpings of very grey roast lamb and only announcing herself stonkered after scraping clean the large monogrammed plate of steamed pudding.1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 136
    • Mrs. Moreland was not often at a loss, but this time she felt completely stymied or stonkered – a word to whose derivation we have no clue and perhaps it isn't a real word, but we have always known it. Perhaps – if it is a real word – it comes from Golf, a language of which we are completely..."Three Score and Ten" by Angela Thirkell, Alfred A Knopf (1961), p. 62
  2. (Australia, slang) Drunk.

Meaning of stonker

Verb

stonker (third-person singular simple present stonkers, present participle stonkering, simple past and past participle stonkered)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang, transitive) To defeat decisively; to trounce.
    Synonyms:
    stonk
  2. (Australia, New Zealand, slang, transitive) To baffle or dumbfound.
    • This sort of stonkers me, but I says to him: […]2018, Arthur W. Upfield, Kees de Hoog, Up and Down Australia Again
    Synonyms:
    snooker

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Synonyms of stonkered

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Forms of stonkered

comparativemore stonkered
superlativemost stonkered

Questions about stonkered

What does stonkered mean?
Stonkered means beaten, defeated; exhausted.
What is stonkered the simple past and past participle of?
Stonkered is the simple past and past participle of stonker.
What part of speech is stonkered?
Stonkered is an adjective.
How do you pronounce stonkered?
Stonkered is pronounced /ˈstɒnkəd/ (UK).

Words near stonkered in the dictionary

  1. stonishment
  2. stonk
  3. stonkbroker
  4. stonked
  5. stonker
  6. stonkered
  7. stonkering
  8. stonkers
  9. stonking
  10. stonkingly
  11. stonks

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