different between dank vs frowsty

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dæ?k/
• (æ-tensing) IPA^(key): /de??k/
• Rhymes: -æ?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English danke (“wet, damp; dampness, moisture”), probably from North Germanic, related to Swedish dank (“marshy spot”), Icelandic dökk (“pool”), Old Norse d?kk (“pit, depression”), from Proto-Germanic *dankwaz (“dark”). However, some trace it to a West Germanic source such as Dutch damp (“vapor”) or Middle High German damph, both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dampaz (“smoke, steam, vapor”).

Adjective

dank (comparative danker, superlative dankest)

1. Dark, damp and humid.
   • 1835, Richard Chenevix Trench, The Story of Justin Martyr

     Cheerless watches on the cold, dank ground.

   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXII:

     Who were the strugglers, what war did they wage, / Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank / Soil to a plash? [...]

2. (figuratively, of marijuana) Highly potent.

3. (slang, often ironic) Great, awesome.

Derived terms

• danken
• dankly
• dankness
• dank meme

Translations

Noun

dank (plural danks)

1. Moisture; humidity; water.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VII, verse 441:

     "Yet oft they quit | The dank, and rising on siff pennons, tow'r | the mid aerial sky"

Etymology 2

From Middle English danken, from the adjective (see above).

Verb

dank (third-person singular simple present danks, present participle danking, simple past and past participle danked)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To moisten, dampen; used of mist, dew etc.

References

Etymology 3

Alternative forms

• danek

Noun

dank (plural danks)

1. A small silver coin formerly used in Persia.

Anagrams

• D. Kan., N. Dak., NKDA, kDNA, kand, kdna

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??k/
• Hyphenation: dank
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch danc, from Old Dutch *thank, from Proto-Germanic *þankaz.

Noun

dank m (uncountable)

1. gratitude, thanks
2. show/token of recognition
3. reward, recompense

Synonyms

• dankbetoon
• dankbetuiging
• dankzegging

Antonyms

• ondank

Derived terms

• danken
• dankbaar
• dankloos
• dankwoord
• dankzeggen
• plasdank
• stank voor dank

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

dank

1. first-person singular present indicative of danken
2. imperative of danken

German

Etymology

Cognate with danken and Dutch dank; compare the Latin gr?tia.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?k

Preposition

dank (+ genitive or dative)

1. thanks to, because of

Related terms

• danken
• bedanken
• Dank m, Undank

Further reading

• “dank” in Duden online

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dank/, [da?k]

Noun

dank m

1. tax, fine, levy, duty

Declension

Further reading

• dank in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Luxembourgish

Verb

dank

1. second-person singular imperative of danken

English

Adjective

frowsty (comparative frowstier, superlative frowstiest)

1. (Britain) musty; stuffy (atmosphere)
   • 1918, Siegried Sassoon, "A Working Party" in The Old Huntsman and Other Poems, New York: Dutton & Co., lines 41-44, [1]

     He thought of getting back by half-past twelve, / And tot of rum to send him warm to sleep / In draughty dug-out frowsty with the fumes / Of coke, and full of snoring weary men.

   • 1933, H. G. Wells, The Shape of Things to Come, Book 4, Chapter 5, [2]

     Man, he says, was still "frowsty-minded" and "half asleep" in the early twenty-first century, still in urgent danger of a relapse into the confused nightmare living of the Age of Frustration.

   • 1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Collins, 1998, Chapter 10,

     So Mrs. Beaver and the children came bundling out of the cave, all blinking in the daylight, and with earth all over them, and looking very frowsty and unbrushed and uncombed and with the sleep in their eyes.

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