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dank
What does dank mean?
dank (adjective): unpleasantly cool and humid.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you pronounce dank?
/dæŋk/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does dank come from?
From Middle English danke (“wet, damp; dampness, moisture”), probably from North Germanic, related to Swedish dank (“marshy spot”), Icelandic dökk (“pool”), Old Norse dǫkk (“pit, depression”), from Proto-Germanic *dankwaz (“dark”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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unpleasantly cool and humid
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