Conk

Definition: Conk

Conk

Noun

1. (British) informal term for the nose.

Verb

1. Come to a stop; "The car stalled in the driveway".

2. Hit, esp. on the head; "The stranger conked him and he fainted".

3. Die (colloquial); "The old man finally kicked the bucket".

4. Pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Food & Agriculture

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Conk

Crosswords: Conk

Expression using "conk": conk out. Additional references.

Albanian

qëlloj (batter, clip, clout, discharge, fetch, flap, get, hammer, hit, impinge, knock, lay out, paddle, poke, pop, pot, pound, rifle, shoot, slap, slug, smite, strike, switch), kokë (block, bulb, catchword, dome, head, loaf, nob, noddle, noggin, noodle, nut, onion, pate, poll, pommel), hundë (boco, boko, nose, nozzle, smeller, snitch), godit (bash, beat, biff, buffet, bump, butt, clip, clout, deal, defeat, hit, impinge, instigate, joggle, jostle, knock, pound, shock, shove, slam, smite, stab, strike, tap, thrash, thwack, whack), godas (affect, astonish smb., bash, beat, biff, buffet, bump, butt, clip, clout, defeat, drop, hit, impinge, knock, pound, smite, stab, strike, whack). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تعطل (breakdown, fall due on, give out, heave to, idleness, inactivity, jam, pack, paralysis, spoil), ‏ضرب في الرأس, ‏اغمى عليه (faint, pass out, swoon). (various references)

Bulgarian 

умирам (be dying, cash in, cross the styx, depart, die, end, exit, expire, fade away, go under, go west, kick in, kick off, kick up, mortify, pass, pass away, pass on, pass out, peg out, pip out, pop off, quit the scene, snuff out, step off, step out, succumb, sup with pluto, wither), удрям по главата (nob), удар по главата, развалям се (addle, fail, go bad, taint, turn, turn off, turn sour), глава (attic, beer, bulb, chief, chump, compartment, crumpet, head, knob, loaf, nob, noddle, noggin, nut, onion, pate, poll, sconce, topknot), нос (boko, bow, foreland, head, headland, hoe, hook, naze, nose, nozzle, pecker, point, promontory, prow, smeller, stem, tongue), припадам (faint, pass out, peg out, swoon), повреда (breakdown, damage, defect, failure, fault, flaw, hurt, injury, lesion, mischief, scathe, trouble). (various references)

Czech

chcípnout (conk out), porouchat se (conk out, get damaged, give out, go haywire). (various references)

Danish

toender (punk, touchwood), poresvamp (punk). (various references)

Dutch

zwam (fungus, mushroom, punk, tinder), verrot hout (punk, touchwood), tonder (punk, tinder). (various references)

Farsi 

ضعیف شدن(معمولاباout), ازکارافتادن (Incapacitate, Stop). (various references)

Finnish

taula (German tinder, touchwood), kääpä (fungus growth). (various references)

French

carpophore dimidié, tomber dans les pommes, pif, frapper, amadou. (various references)

German

den Geist aufgeben (conk out, pop off). (various references)

Greek 

καρποφόρος πυρίτης(μύκης δένδρων) (punk), αγαρικόν,ήσκα (punk, touchwood). (various references)

Hungarian

orr (muzzle, nasal, nose, pecker, proboscides, proboscis, snitch, Snoot, snout, snozzle, toe), kiegyenesít (align, erect, straighten, to even, to hone, to rectify, to set aright, to straighten, unbend). (various references)

Italian

legno da esca (punk, touchwood), fungo a mensola (punk), dare un colpo in testa a. (various references)

Korean 

머리 (HEAD). (various references)

Pig Latin

onkcay

Portuguese

carpóforo dimidiado (punk), podridão seca (dry rot, Moko disease, punk, touchwood), nariz (boko, neb, nose, pecker, proboscis, smeller, snout), bicanca (proboscis, snout), agárico dos cirurgiões (punk, touchwood). (various references)

Russian 

удар по носу (smeller), голова (bonce, chump, head, jowl, knob, nob, noggin, noodle, nut, pate, think-tank), дать в нос. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

udariti (bang, bash, bat, beat, belt, bump, clock, clout, drive in, hack, hit, jog, knock, paw, percuss, poke, punch, ram, rap, shock, strike, stub, swipe, wallop, whack), poremećaj u radu motora, pokvariti se (addle, become rotten, go bad, let rot). (various references)

Spanish

carpóforo (carpophore, fruit body, fruiting body, punk), yesca (punk, tinder), narigón (conky). (various references)

Swedish

skalle (cranium, crumpet, dome, loaf, noddle, noggin, pate, skull). (various references)

Turkish

kafa (bean, brains, cast of mind, chump, coconut, costard, end, head, headpiece, intelligence, knob, nob, noddle, noggin, noodle, nut, onion, pate, poll, potato, savvy, sconce), dalmak (barge, bathe, be absorbed in, be lost in thought, be wraped up in, bounce, break, break into, contemplate, cut into, dip, dive, drop, drowse off, duck, engross, groove, jut into, lose oneself in, meditate, muse, nip in, pitch into, plummet, plunge, pore, pore over, rush in, rush into, sail in, sink, sink into), burun (beak, bill, Cape, foreland, headland, hooter, nasal, Ness, nose, nozzle, prominence, promontory, rhinal, rhino-, smeller, Snoot, snout, tip), bozulmak (addle, break down, break up, bust, collapse, decay, decline, deteriorate, disrupt, dwindle, ebb, fail, get out of hand, get out of order, go bad, go haywire, go off, go sour, go under, go wrong, lose face, perish, retrograde, retrogress, rot, sour, spoil, stale, taint, turn, turn sour, upset), bayılmak (adore, be a sucker for, be enamored of, be enamoured of, be fond of, be taken by, be taken with, blackout, commune with oneself, enthuse, faint, fall for, lose consciousness, pass out, swoon), başa vurulan darbe, ölmek (belly up, bite the dust, cash in, choke, croak, cross the styx, cut up, decease, depart, die, end, exit, expire, gasp one's life out, give up the ghost, go, go belly up, go hence, go the way of all flesh, go west, hand in one's checks, hand in one's chips, hop the twig, kick the bucket, pass away, pass in, pass out, pay one's debt to nature, peg out, perish, pip, pip out, pop off, return to dust, snuff it, succumb, yield up the ghost), çalışmamak (be at rest, not to work). (various references)

Ukrainian

стукіт (chatter, clash, clatter, rataplan, smash), голова (attic, bean, chair, chairman, chief, head, nob, noddle, noggin, noodle, nut, onion, pate, president, topknot), ніс (beak, beezer, boco, boko, fore, nose, nozzle, snitch). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "conk": conked, conker, conkers, conking, conks, conky. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Conk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chonku, cinc, cink, cionk, cmon, cno, Cnoke, coak, cognik, Cok, cokne, cokny, cona, conc, concf, cond, coni, conky, conni, connu, cono, conq, conv, Coong, cooni, cosk, counc, Cronk, cuni, cunn, gonk, konak, konk, onk, sconk, shonk, sonk, ucok, zonk. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: nock.

-1 letter: con.

-2 letters: no, on.

+1 letter: clonk, conks, conky, knock, nocks.

+2 letters: beckon, clonks, coking, conked, conker, knocks, nocked, reckon, uncock, uncork, undock, unlock.

+3 letters: bannock, beckons, bonnock, chinook, choking, clonked, cocking, cockney, conkers, conking, convoke, cooking, corking, cowskin, docking, dorneck, dornick, dornock, gunlock, hocking, kenotic, ketonic, knocked, knocker, locking, locknut, mocking, nocking, pocking, reckons, rocking, rockoon, schnook, socking, sockman, sockmen, unblock, unchoke, uncloak, uncocks, uncorks, undocks, unfrock, unlocks, winnock, yocking.