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Fun Word of the Day: Stonking | Cryptic Philosopher:
March 28th, 2012 at 9:50 am
[...] second I saw this word, I knew it had to be British. Sure enough, it is: ["Stonking"] been popular slang in the UK for many years, and enjoyed a certain vogue there in the [...]
Ed Groves:
July 9th, 2012 at 1:55 pm
I have an idea that the word “stonking” was my own invention. In the early 1980s, at South Bank, I used to play some strange games with friends, one of which I named “Stonker Tennis” a variant of Tiddly-Winks involving an improvised “net”. “That’s a stonker” we cried – never having heard the word!