Meanings
nountunket (uncountable)
- USarchaicdialectaleuphemisticuncountableHell (intensifier in "what the hell" and similar phrases).
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 1721 more example
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
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