stonkered
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈstɒŋkəd/
Adjective
stonkered (comparative more stonkered, superlative most stonkered)
- (Australia, slang) Beaten, defeated; exhausted.
- 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 136:
- […] she ate heartily, demolishing two helpings of very grey roast lamb and only announcing herself stonkered after scraping clean the large monogrammed plate of steamed pudding.
- "Three Score and Ten" by Angela Thirkell, Alfred A Knopf (1961), p. 62:
- Mrs. Moreland was not often at a loss, but this time she felt completely stymied or stonkered – a word to whose derivation we have no clue and perhaps it isn't a real word, but we have always known it. Perhaps – if it is a real word – it comes from Golf, a language of which we are completely ignorant.
- (Australia, slang) Drunk.
Synonyms
- (defeated): overcome, wrecked
- (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk
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