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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Any tangible object or thing, especially one that is short and thick.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, countable, uncountable
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noun
A nonsense word or placeholder, often used incongruously in self-deprecating or doomer-like speech.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, attributive, countable, humorous, uncountable
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noun
Something that is correct, agreeable to consensus, or without fault, as part of a straw man.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, attributive, countable, ironic, uncountable
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History
From chunk. Compare humongous (“extremely large”, adjective) or dingus (“any object or thing; a foolish person”, noun), and chonk. James Stephanie Sterling was credited with coining the term “chungus” in 2012, though it did not see wide usage until around 2018 with the rise of the “Big Chungus” meme. The Big Chungus meme is derived from the Looney Tunes episode Wabbit Twouble.
