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See also: Gronk, grónk, and grønk

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Etymology 1

A photo of a sign in a bar describing a 'no gronk policy'.

Noun

gronk (plural gronks)

  1. (Australia, derogatory, informal) An unintelligent and callous person.

References

"gronk" in The Macquarie Dictionary Online

Etymology 2

Imitative.

Verb

gronk (third-person singular simple present gronks, present participle gronking, simple past and past participle gronked)

  1. (computing, slang, intransitive) Of a floppy disk drive: to produce mechanical sounds of operation.
    • 1990, Compute, volume 12, numbers 1-5, page 62:
      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, […]
    • 1993, Iris Forrest, Computer Tales of Fact and Fantasy:
      […] a disk drive gronked, her screen bloomed, and suddenly there was an icon in the upper right corner.
    • 1994, Bryan Pfaffenberger, I Hate PCs:
      The next startup event is the computer's attempt to read a disk in drive A. But, there is no disk in drive A, remember? You were supposed to remove any disk in this drive. So, you hear a lot of pathetic gronking and grakking until the computer gives up […]
  2. (computing, slang, intransitive, rare) To fail; to crash or go wrong.
    • 1992, Charlottesville Computer Users' Group: CCUG:
      Repeats the last 40 lines of IRC output, in case your terminal gronked.
    • 2010, Steven Levy, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (25th Anniversary Edition)
      The other faction centered on what went on under the layout. This was The System, and it was constantly being improved, revamped, perfected, and sometimes "gronked"—in club jargon, screwed up.

Etymology 3

Onomatopoeic

Noun

gronk (plural gronks)

  1. The cry of a raven.
    Synonym: quork
    • 2006, Terrence Rundle West, Run of the Town‎, page 153:
      Silence rang in my ears, punctuated by the occasional gronk of the ravens, as they flitted about in the spruce trees.
    • 2010, Diane Lee Wilson, Raven Speak‎, page 6:
      Her call elicited an annoyed gronk above her head, and she looked up to see a raven lifting off the cliff face.
    • 2021, David Reed, Raven Queen, Rise, unnumbered page:
      My raven launched himself into the dark above with a gronk of amusement.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:gronk.

Verb

gronk (third-person singular simple present gronks, present participle gronking, simple past and past participle gronked)

  1. To make a gronking sound.
    Synonym: quork
    • 2001, G. Stewart Nash, The Last Three Hundred Miles‎, page 96:
      A raven gronked along the timber-covered ridge line, and a cool breeze swept down from the snow-covered peaks.
    • 2007, Kage Baker, The Graveyard Game‎, page 34:
      Juan Bautista handed the raven off to a perch—it gronked and protested—and took a seat on his couch.
    • 2017, Robert Michael Pyle, Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide, unnumbered page:
      The rush of water behind me, the soft drip from the trees, ravens gronking far off—these were the only sounds I heard.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:gronk.
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