Zony vs Zonk - What's the difference?
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The offspring of a male zebra and a female pony.'>citation
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An unfavorable card or token, or undesirable or worthless item used as a prize in a contest or game show (such as ).
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(slang) A feeling of a drug taking hold.
To make (someone) sleepy or delirious.
To become exhausted, sleepy or delirious.
As nouns the difference between zony and zonk
is that zony is the offspring of a male zebra and a female pony while zonk is an unfavorable card or token, or undesirable or worthless item used as a prize in a contest or game show (such as Let's Make a Deal).As a verb zonk is
to make (someone) sleepy or delirious.zony
English
(wikipedia zony)Noun
(zonies)- > Please tell us how you are doing. What do you have, zony or zorse?
- the old man with the beard decided to lay his hands upon this poor lonely pony, and descended upon her a bounty, a bounty so exceedingly large, that she was blessed with a zony' or a pebra, and this doth maketh lots of dosh for the ' zony ’s owner, so that he too can be bountious (SIC) with the hay from the tv rights, and dost ensure the continuing success of the little darling who shall dwell in the house of hay for evermore.
- I am a zony . My father is a zebra and my mother is a pony.
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zonk
English
Noun
(en noun)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.
- 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.
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- 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.
- I have three empty coffee cans, two with prizes and one with a slip of paper that says "Zonk ."
- Avoid the Zonk / On the TV show Let's Make a Deal, contestants often had to choose between three curtains.
- Once a contestant picked a door, Monty would often open one of the other two doors to reveal a zonk , ...
- Behind two doors is a “zonk ,” that is, something amusing but of little or no value, such as a goat, ...
Verb
(en verb)- After two hours of studying, I zonked out.