stonkered

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈstɒŋkəd/

Verb

stonkered

1. simple past and past participle of stonker

Adjective

stonkered (comparative more stonkered, superlative most stonkered)

1. (Australia, slang) Beaten, defeated; exhausted.
   • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 136:

     […] she ate heartily, demolishing two helpings of very grey roast lamb and only announcing herself stonkered after scraping clean the large monogrammed plate of steamed pudding.

   • "Three Score and Ten" by Angela Thirkell, Alfred A Knopf (1961), p. 62:

     Mrs. Moreland was not often at a loss, but this time she felt completely stymied or stonkered – a word to whose derivation we have no clue and perhaps it isn't a real word, but we have always known it. Perhaps – if it is a real word – it comes from Golf, a language of which we are completely ignorant.

2. (Australia, slang) Drunk.

Synonyms

• (defeated): overcome, wrecked
• (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk