different between zonking vs nonking

English

Pronunciation

Verb

zonking

1. present participle of zonk

Adjective

zonking (comparative more zonking, superlative most zonking)

1. (slang) Striking; great.
   • 1976, Angela Carter, ‘Health on the Brain’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 82:

     Anyway, the zonking eight-part series that took butter off middle-class tables for at least a week was entitled ‘The Art of Body Maintenance’ […]

English

Etymology

non- +? king

Noun

nonking (plural nonkings)

1. One who, or that which, is not a king.
   • 1983, Edwin Arthur Maxwell, Introduction to statistical thinking (page 161)

     Similarly, for each of the other draws, the probability of a nonking is 12/13.

   • 1993, Nicolas Shumway, The Invention of Argentina (page 22)

     In short, the oath was more than anything a way of uniting Creoles and Spaniards of all political stripes under one banner; no one objected to swearing allegiance to a nonking.

   • 2006, Soedjatmoko, An Introduction to Indonesian Historiography (page 96)

     A babatangan is a nonking whose future kingship was predicted by a priest...