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tunket

tunket noun: hell (intensifier in "what the hell" and similar phrases).

Noun

tunket (uncountable)

  1. (US, archaic, dialectal, euphemistic) Hell (intensifier in "what the hell" and similar phrases).
    • What in tunket are you making such a to-do about it for? Any girl would be tickled to death to have me use her things to ornament my room.1871, Scribner's Monthly, an Illustrated Magazine for the People, page 630
    • Confeound ^([sic]) it! Everything in its place, and a place in everything; where'n tunket's the shovel?1885, John Vance Cheney, The Old Doctor, page 172

Questions about tunket

What does tunket mean?
Tunket means hell (intensifier in "what the hell" and similar phrases).
What part of speech is tunket?
Tunket is a noun.

Words near tunket in the dictionary

  1. tunk
  2. tunkaw
  3. tunkaws
  4. Tunker
  5. Tunkers
  6. tunket
  7. Tunkhannock
  8. tunks
  9. tunku
  10. tunkus
  11. Tunley

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