crunk

[LanDi Liu]

Um, that would be "Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!"  : )

Randy

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:13 AM, Benjamin Zimmer <
bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:

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> On Feb 13, 2008 10:34 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > Urbandictionary.com has more than anyone but a doctoral candidate could
> wish to know
> > about "crunk" *and* "krunk."
> >
> >   Essentially, it's a noun designating a style of music or an adjective
> meaning wildly
> > intoxicated on one or more legal or illegal substances.
> >
> >   Perhaps it was a sound effect in one of Don Martin's cartoons for
> _Mad_ in the dim past.
> > Memory fails me.
>
> I don't know about that, but it did appear in the Dr. Seuss classic
> _Marvin K. Mooney, Won't You Please Go Home_ (1972): "You can go on
> stilts. You can go by fish. You can go in a Crunk-Car if you wish."
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