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comparative danker, superlative dankest
Dark, damp and humid. quotations examples
Now that the fields are dank and ways are mire.
1646 (indicated as 1645), John Milton, Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […]
Cheerless watches on the cold, dank ground.
1835, Richard Chenevix Trench, The Story of Justin Martyr
Who were the strugglers, what war did they wage, / Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank / Soil to a plash? [...]
1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XXII
It's a world away from the dank and uninviting St Pancras that British Rail wanted to tear down in the 1960s.
2022 November 30, Nick Brodrick, “Pride and innovation shine at St Pancras”, in RAIL, number 971, page 69
(figuratively, of marijuana) Moist and sticky, (by extension) highly potent. examples
(slang, often ironic) Great, awesome. quotations
His house organ Breitbart and a host of Trump-right websites and news outlets sang praises to his dank genius.
2018, January 5, Rick Wilson, “Bannon Banished for Telling Truths About Trump as MAGA Monsters Turn on Each Other”, in The Daily Beast
uncountable
Moisture; humidity; water. quotations examples
Yet oft they quit
1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
(slang) Strong, high-quality cannabis. quotations
Smoking mids will get you about three times higher than shwag, and same for dank—it'll be about six times higher than smoking some mids.
2015, Scott Jacques, Richard Wright, Code of the Suburb, page 9
third-person singular simple present danks, present participle danking, simple past and past participle danked
(obsolete, intransitive) To moisten, dampen; used of mist, dew etc.
plural danks
(historical) A small silver coin formerly used in Persia.