conk

Significat (anglès)

Noun

1. The shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting body of a bracket fungus (also called a shelf fungus), i.e. a mushroom growing off a tree trunk.
2. (slang) A nose, especially a large one.
3. Alternative spelling of conch

Verb

To hit, especially on the head.

Verb

To chemically straighten tightly curled hair.

Verb

1. (colloquial) To fail or show signs of failing, cease operating, break down.
2. (colloquial) To become unconscious.

Sinònims

die

💀

pass away

perish

expire

buy the farm

decease

go

check out

choke

pop off

pass

exit

snuff it

cash in one’s chips

drop dead

kick the bucket

croak

give-up the ghost

stall

pass out

faint

pass on

demise

ring down the curtain

swoon

cease to be

go to meet ones maker

join the choir invisible

missing

neb

nib

nose

👃

nozzle

pause

pecker

point

process

pull over

pull up

roll over

snoot

spout

stagnate

stoppage

succumb

tappet

trouble

stop

🛑

vanish

stop over

wite

konk

underlie

accident

beak

bill

bite the dust

black out

blow

blow out

blunder

breakdown

bug

🐛

burn out

check

cut out

draw up

fail

failure

fipple

give up the ghost

go out

halt

haul up

hitch

impairment

inaction

malfunction

mischance

mischief

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/kɒŋk/

Etimologia (anglès)

Variant or figurative use of conch. Attested since the nineteenth century.