Noun

(en noun)

A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service.

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in earlier usage, an eremite or hermit devoted to solitude, as opposed to a cenobite, who lived communally.

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(slang) A male who leads an isolated life; a loner, a hermit.

(slang) An unmarried man who does not have sexual relationships.

(slang) A judge.

(printing) A blotch or spot of ink on a printed page, caused by the ink not being properly distributed; distinguished from a friar, or white spot caused by a deficiency of ink.

A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine.

A South American monkey (.

The (European bullfinch).

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(en noun)

An unfavorable card or token, or undesirable or worthless item used as a prize in a contest or game show (such as ).

* 2003-10-1, Gregory Arthur Baer Life: The Odds (And How to Improve Them) , Penguin, ISBN 1592400337, page 237

There will always be two doors that hold zonks', so regardless of whether you initially chose the grand prize or a '''zonk''', Monty will always be able to show you a ' zonk not chosen.

* 2003-12-30, Jerrilyn Farmer, Mumbo Gumbo: A Madeline Bean Novel , HarperCollins, ISBN 0380817195, page 204:

A live, mane-embellished, SAG-card-carrying lion, I should point out, who was likely being staged for a few minutes off to the side before he would be used as a freaking “Zonk !” on a freaking game show, for crying out loud.

* 2004, Jay Mechling, On My Honor: Boy Scouts and the Making of American Youth , University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0226517055, page 124

A zonk' was way overdue, yet the boys knew that the Seniors knew they would think this was a ' zonk and would trick the boys by making this another real prize.

* 2004, Timothy V. Rasinski, Nancy Padak, Effective reading strategies: teaching children who find reading difficult , Pearson/Prentice Hall, ISBN 0131121863, page 150

I have three empty coffee cans, two with prizes and one with a slip of paper that says "Zonk ."

* 2006-05-09, Bruce Frey, Statistics hacks , O'Reilly Media, ISBN 0596101643, page 208:

Avoid the Zonk / On the TV show Let's Make a Deal, contestants often had to choose between three curtains.

* 2008, Max H. Bazerman, Don A. Moore, Judgment in Managerial Decision Making , John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0470049456, page 53:

Once a contestant picked a door, Monty would often open one of the other two doors to reveal a zonk , ...

* 2009, Victor Shoup, A Computational Introduction to Number Theory and Algebra , Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521516447, page 217:

Behind two doors is a “zonk ,” that is, something amusing but of little or no value, such as a goat, ...

(slang) A feeling of a drug taking hold.