English
thrunk
Blend of throw + dunk or throw in + dunk.
Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- ‘to rub’
Proto-Germanic *þrēaną ‘to twist’
Proto-West Germanic *þrāan ‘to twist’
Old English þrāwan ‘to turn’
Middle English throwen ‘to throw’
English throw
Proto-West Germanic *þunkōn ‘to make wet’
Old High German dunkōn ‘to dip, submerge, dunk’
Middle High German dunken
Pennsylvania German dunke
English dunk
Today it means
noun A throw-in of the ball in from above the rim without one's hand touching the rim (so that it is not strictly speaking a dunk).
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “thrunk”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
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