gronk

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An unintelligent and callous person. Australia,derogatory,informal
  2. a harsh grating sound.; The cry of a raven.
    — Silence rang in my ears, punctuated by the occasional gronk of the ravens, as they flitted about in the spruce trees.
  3. a harsh grating sound.; A mating call of the Albert's lyrebird.
    — We then viewed the audio spectrogram...and measured the timing of each gronk.
  4. a harsh grating sound.; A British Rail Class 08 shunter locomotive, or similar shunters. UK,slang
动词 v.
  1. Of a floppy disk drive: to produce mechanical sounds of operation. intransitive,slang
    — They say a good detective always starts at the beginning, so I installed the program on my VGA PC's hard drive. As the computer gronked away, copying six 5¼-inch floppies, I wondered why, if bad detectives start at the end, […]
  2. To make a gronking sound.
    — A raven gronked along the timber-covered ridge line, and a cool breeze swept down from the snow-covered peaks.
  3. To fail; to crash or go wrong. intransitive,rare,slang
    — Repeats the last 40 lines of IRC output, in case your terminal gronked.

词形变化

gronks plural gronks present,singular,third-person gronking participle,present gronked participle,past gronked past gronks plural gronks present,singular,third-person gronking participle,present gronked participle,past gronked past

词源

词源 1
Imitative.
词源 2
Onomatopoeic
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