By analogy with past tenses and past participles ending in "-unk", such asdrunk andsunk.
thunk
- (humorous, nonstandard)pastparticiple ofthink
Who would havethunk those guys would have a problem with a little lie?
A skunk sat on a stump andthunk the stump stunk, but the stumpthunk that the skunk stunk.
2021 September 2,Paul Simms, “The Prisoner” (19:09 from the start), inWhat We Do in the Shadows[1], season 3, episode 1, spoken by Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch):“Do you think I could have a minute to think about it?” “The prisoner needs a moment to think about it.” “It's ok. I thought about it.” “He'sthunk about it.” “Okay. And I agree.”
Onomatopoeic.
thunk
- Representing the dull sound of the impact of a heavy object striking another and coming to an immediate standstill, with neither object being broken by the impact.
thunk (third-person singular simple presentthunks,present participlethunking,simple past and past participlethunked)
- To strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound.
I wasthunked on the head by his stick.
Said by the inventors to be from the irregular jocular past tense ofthink (seeEtymology 1), being coined when they realised that the type of an argument inALGOL 60 could be predetermined atcompile time (with a little compile-time “thought”).[1]
thunk (pluralthunks)
- (computing, functional programming) A delayed computation.
- Coordinate term:closure
2009, Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen, Donald Bruce Stewart,Real World Haskell, O'Reilly,page97:Not surprisingly, athunk is more expensive to store than a single number[…].
- (computing) In theScheme programming language, afunction orprocedure taking no arguments.
- (computing) A specializedsubroutine that onesoftware module uses to execute code in another module.
1995 October 10,PC Mag, volume14, number17, page326:If the provider of these DLLs has not updated the code to a 32-bit environment, you will have to switch to a new 32-bit library or writethunks between your 32-bit code and the 16-bit DLL.
thunk (third-person singular simple presentthunks,present participlethunking,simple past and past participlethunked)
- (computing, functional programming, transitive) To delay (acomputation).
2009, Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen, Donald Bruce Stewart,Real World Haskell, O'Reilly,page97:Not surprisingly, a thunk is more expensive to store than a single number, and the more complex thethunked expression, the more space it needs. For something cheap such as arithmetic,thunking an expression is more computationally expensive than calculating it immediately.
- (computing, transitive) To execute (code) by means of a thunk.
1995 May 16, Andrew Schulman, “DOS is Dead? Look Again”, inPC Mag, volume14, number 9,page150:This efficiency is offset by the fact that some of the calls made by Win32 apps must now bethunked down to 16 bits, something that isn't necessary in Windows NT and OS/2.
thunk
- bronze,brass
- Inglis, Douglas; Sampu, Nasaw; Jaseng, Wilai; Jana, Thocha (2005),A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon[2], Payap University, page126
