gronk
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.60 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Diminutive of Gronkowski.
Example Sentences
- "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, […]"
- "[…] a disk drive gronked, her screen bloomed, and suddenly there was an icon in the upper right corner."
- "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 […]"
- "Repeats the last 40 lines of IRC output, in case your terminal gronked."
- "The other faction centered on […] what went on under the [model railway] layout. This was The System, […] and it was constantly being improved, revamped, perfected, and sometimes "gronked"—in club jargon, screwed up."
- "Silence rang in my ears, punctuated by the occasional gronk of the ravens, as they flitted about in the spruce trees."