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語源 1

Variant or figurative use of conch. Attested since the nineteenth century.^[1]

別の表記

• konk

名詞

conk (複数形 conks)

1. The shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting body of a bracket fungus (also called a shelf fungus), i.e. a mushroom growing off a tree trunk.
2. (slang) A nose, especially a large one.
3. Alternative spelling of conch

派生語

• artist's conk

動詞

conk (三人称単数 現在形 conks, 現在分詞 conking, 過去形および過去分詞形 conked)

1. (slang) To hit, especially on the head.
   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

     She came skipping to me just now, clapping her little hands and bleating about how very, very happy she was, dear Mrs Travers. The silly young geezer. I nearly conked her one with my trowel. I'd always thought her half-baked, but now I think they didn't even put her in the oven.

派生語

• cold-conk
• conk out

語源 2

From congolene, the brand name of a hair-straightening product.

名詞

conk (複数形 conks)

1. (US, dated) A hairstyle involving the chemical straightening and styling of kinky hair.

動詞

conk (三人称単数 現在形 conks, 現在分詞 conking, 過去形および過去分詞形 conked)

1. (US, dated) To chemically straighten tightly curled hair.
   • 1957, James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”, in Going to Meet the Man‎^[1], Dial, published 1965:

     The barbecue cook, wearing a dirty white apron, his conked hair reddish and metallic in the pale sun, and a cigarette between his lips, stood in the doorway, watching them.

語源 3

Unknown. Attested since the early twentieth century.

動詞

conk (三人称単数 現在形 conks, 現在分詞 conking, 過去形および過去分詞形 conked)

1. (colloquial, often with out) To fail or show signs of failing, cease operating, break down.
   • 1921, Australian Aero Clubs, Sea, Land and Air, volume 3, page 310:

     Therefore, have two or more engines, so that there is still some power left if one engine conks.

   • 1983, Walli Leff and Marilyn Haft, Time without Work, page 93:

     I watch television when it's playing, but it done conked out. Everything is conked out.

2. (colloquial, often with out) To become unconscious.

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アナグラム

• Nock, nock