lunky

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/ˈlʌŋki/

adjective

Stupid; slow-witted; unintelligent.

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Meanings

adjectivelunky (comparative lunkier, superlative lunkiest)

comparative lunkier · superlative lunkiest

  1. Stupid; slow-witted; unintelligent.

    As her mother tucks her brother in, Judy settles before the television and flicks from The Wonder Years to Night Court to a French movie, starring that lunky Depardieu who is in all of them, this time about a man who comes into a village and usurps another man’s identity, including his wife.

    1990, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest, page 98

Origin

From lunk + -y.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with lunky

chunkyspunkyclunkypunkyblue monkeydunkygunkypunkieskunkythe organ grinder, not the monkeytrunkyunky
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Cite this entry
APA

lunky. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lunky

MLA

“lunky.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lunky. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lunky,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lunky.

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