Crunker vs Clunker - What's the difference?
crunker | clunker |
(crunk)
(obsolete) To cry like a crane.
* Withals (1608)
* The Country Man (poem)
Etymology, Crunk: etymology] at Wikipedia for further information.
There is no evidence of any connection with Yiddish or German , nor that it entered the Southern Black vernacular through the presence of European Jewish immigrant shopkeepers in black neighborhoods in cities such as Atlanta;
the phonetic similarity of the words is considered a coincidence.See (US, slang) crazy and drunk; according to the
* 2009 , (Kesha), (Tik Tok)
(US, slang) simultaneously intoxicated by marijuana and alcohol
* She is so fucking crunk right now.
(US, slang) of an absurd amount
* I have a crunk ton of homework tonight.
2004
2005}} * 1997, *: Get crunk, who u wit’? * 2002, Ashanti, Foolish/Unfoolish [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1401300308&id=S118tQIJlk0C&pg=PA34&lpg=PA34&sig=zFEu5k2g2F2iOTw6Pq6uFFjJJw0] *: Let me tell you how I like it / If we’re all in a crowd / I like to be the one they single out / Let me tell you how to please me / Can you get it crunk and make my body jump? * 2003, Todd Boyd, The New H.N.I.C. [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0814798950&id=DgZ7YgzOJLUC&pg=PA6&lpg=PA6&sig=vd-YPaf83WWKyHA6Qf6anoaj7zc] *: Using their trademark southern dialect, the group tell others to “huss that fuss,” shut up and move, for they, Outkast, are the type of people who “make the club get crunk ,” in other words, make you get up and jam, with “crunk” here functioning as a sort of past perfect sense of the word “crank.” * 2005, Tamara Palmer, Country Fried Soul [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0879308575&id=t-sT4VyjTKUC&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&sig=UeD7CSeKUITrrT1oAfvUhOI627w] *: I just saw how much of an influence Tupac had on Master P and No Limit, how much of an influence Tupac had on the whole city of Atlanta, Georgia, and on Houston, Texas, and just how much influence on influence on that whole ‘Bankhead [Bounce]’ and getting crunk certain songs of Makaveli had on that shit. A type of hip hop that originated in the southern United States.
* 2004, Crunk Classics [title] [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00029RT1M/]
* 2005, Michael Joseph Corcoran, All Over the Map [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0292709765&id=y5iPO9n4qtQC&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&sig=Y6mP0dWw0IOpEwelSg4eXS2RkbM]
* 2005, Tamara Palmer, Country Fried Soul [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0879308575&id=t-sT4VyjTKUC&pg=PA17&lpg=PA17&sig=McTHEGgDgR6c2fFj-7mR-buBdaM]
* 2005, David Katz, Things a Man Should Never Do Past 30 [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1588164691&id=vY51QY7nhEQC&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&sig=5CLasz94Yluq_TIXNXloM-tgM2I]
* 1997, Stephen King, "The Wizard and the Glass "
(informal) A decrepit motor car.
* 2004 , Teralee E. M. Bird, What the Herald Angel Sang (Seraphim Trilogy Book One), ISBN 9781411617216:
(informal) Anything which is in poor condition or of poor quality.
* 1974 , , "
* 2006 , Elizabeth Crane, "
As an adjective crunker
is (crunk).As a noun clunker is
(informal) a decrepit motor car.crunker
English
Adjective
(head)crunk
English
Etymology 1
Compare Icelandic krnka to croak.Verb
(en verb)- The crane crunketh .
- The crunking crane heard high amongst the clouds.
Etymology 2
“high on marijuana and drunk (on alcohol) at the same time”. Coined Southern US late-1980s, in original sense of “rowdy, high energy out-of-control behavior by a crowd at Southern night clubs”.Miller, Matt: "Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the U.S. South, 1997-2007]".Popularized by its use in the (fusion genre) of (crunk) music in the 1990s and especially early 2000s. In this context, first used in music lyrics and notably popularized by '' (''Get Crunk, Who [are] You With[?]: The Album )."Lil Jon crunks up the volume", NY Times, November 28, 2004 See [[w:crunk
this LanguageLog postfor information on the high probability of chance similarity among languages.
Alternative forms
* krunkAdjective
(er)Double-Tongued Word Wrester] dictionary, [http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/crunk/ good, phat, fine
- I'm talking about everybody getting crunk, crunk
- Boys tryin' to touch my junk, junk
- Gonna smack him if he getting too drunk, drunk
Quotations
{{timeline , 1900s=1997 , 2000s=20032004
2005}} * 1997, *: Get crunk, who u wit’? * 2002, Ashanti, Foolish/Unfoolish [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN1401300308&id=S118tQIJlk0C&pg=PA34&lpg=PA34&sig=zFEu5k2g2F2iOTw6Pq6uFFjJJw0] *: Let me tell you how I like it / If we’re all in a crowd / I like to be the one they single out / Let me tell you how to please me / Can you get it crunk and make my body jump? * 2003, Todd Boyd, The New H.N.I.C. [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0814798950&id=DgZ7YgzOJLUC&pg=PA6&lpg=PA6&sig=vd-YPaf83WWKyHA6Qf6anoaj7zc] *: Using their trademark southern dialect, the group tell others to “huss that fuss,” shut up and move, for they, Outkast, are the type of people who “make the club get crunk ,” in other words, make you get up and jam, with “crunk” here functioning as a sort of past perfect sense of the word “crank.” * 2005, Tamara Palmer, Country Fried Soul [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0879308575&id=t-sT4VyjTKUC&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&sig=UeD7CSeKUITrrT1oAfvUhOI627w] *: I just saw how much of an influence Tupac had on Master P and No Limit, how much of an influence Tupac had on the whole city of Atlanta, Georgia, and on Houston, Texas, and just how much influence on influence on that whole ‘Bankhead [Bounce]’ and getting crunk certain songs of Makaveli had on that shit.
Noun
(-)- As Houston rap became a national sensation, spinning off into the “crunk ” scene, it was hard to believe that just ten years earlier, the only Texas rap acts of any note were Donald “The D.O.C.” Curry, the Dallasite who hooked up with Dr. Dre and the N.W.A. crew, and the Geto Boys, who set out to make West Coast gangstas come off like Young MC.
- On Slanguistics,'' a special on the MTV2 cable network, Andre 3000 offerred a succinct analogy for crunk.''' “What punk was to rock,” he explains, “' crunk is to rap.”
- Use a “crunk ” song for his cell-phone ring.
- "...talking that stupid crunk' of theirs." There was no proper word for the dialect of the Mejic Vaqueros, but "' crunk " served well enough among the Barony's higher-born citizens.
See also
*References
clunker
English
Noun
(en noun)- The only rig nobody'd recognize is that clunker that Vic drove here in, and he won't take it.
Who's Been Playing At Erma's Typewriter?," Ocala Star-Banner , 3 Oct., p. 12A (retrieved 2 Sep. 2009):
- I bought an old clunker of a typewriter.
Books: Best book by a Chicago author" (Review of Trouble'' by Patrick Somerville), ''Time Out Chicago , 28 Dec. (retrieved 2 Sep. 2009):
- All of the stories have a subtle undercurrent of brutality, and the writing is consistently sharp, direct and darkly funny, and there’s not a clunker in the bunch.