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dwile flonking

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
dwile flonk-ing
IPA
25
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An obscure and intentionally preposterous sport in which teams take turns to dance while avoiding a "dwile" (beer-soaked cloth) thrown by their opponents.

British usage; Uncountable

Etymology

Possibly from dwile or Dutch dweil (“floorcloth”) and English flong, an old past tense of fling. The first documented game took place in 1966, despite hoaxing claims of a 16th-century origin.

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Inflected Forms

dwile flunking (alternative) dwyle flonking (alternative) dwyle flunking (alternative)

Questions

What does dwile flonking mean?
An obscure and intentionally preposterous sport in which teams take turns to dance while avoiding a "dwile" (beer-soaked cloth) thrown by their opponents.
Where does dwile flonking come from?
It is traced to Dutch.

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