Meaning of DANK
| Pronunciation: | | dangk
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| | Definition: | | [adj] unpleasantly cool and humid; "a clammy handshake"; "clammy weather"; "a dank cellar"; "dank rain forests" |
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| | Synonyms: | | clammy, wet |
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\Dank\, a. [Cf. dial, Sw. dank a moist place in a field,
Icel. d["o]kk pit, pool; possibly akin to E. damp or to
daggle dew.]
Damp; moist; humid; wet.
Now that the fields are dank and ways are mire.
--Milton.
Cheerless watches on the cold, dank ground. --Trench.
\Dank\, n.
Moisture; humidity; water. [Obs.]
\Dank\, n.
A small silver coin current in Persia.
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| | Related Terms: | | boggy, damp, dampish, dewy, fenny, humid, marshy, moist, muggy, rainy, roric, roriferous, sticky, swampy, tacky, undried, wet, wettish |
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