Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The name given by sailors to a dish made by soaking shipbiscuit in water, mixing it with fat and molasses, and baking in a pan. Also called
dandyfunk .
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- noun obsolete, nautical
ship's biscuit broken up, mixed withmolasses etc. andbaked
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Examples
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They sleep on the bunk-boards, do as they're told, and eat salt mule and dunderfunk -- same as we did goin 'out. "
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888
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"Dog-fish and dunderfunk!" ejaculated Levi, as he read the name, "THE
Freaks of Fortune or, Half Round the World Oliver Optic 1859
qms commented on the word dunderfunk
The pirates triumphant are plunder-drunk,
Their hardships for now all in wonder sunk,
Engorged with their loot
Of viands and fruit,
Forgetting their dinners of dunderfunk.
September 14, 2018
ry commented on the word dunderfunk
a triple rhyme wotd limerick. what a time to be alive.
September 14, 2018