crunk

[Wilson Gray]

Yes, we did. That's why I wanted to make it clear that I found the
portmanteau definition unreal and that I wasn't going for it.
(Somebody should make a collection of Richard-Pryorisms.)

-Wilson

On Feb 12, 2008 10:20 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> At 8:31 PM -0500 2/12/08, Wilson Gray wrote:
> >Earlier this year, I heard it defined as a portmanteau of "crazy
> >drunk." That strikes me as unlikely, invented way after the fact.
> >
> >-Wilson
>
> "Crunk" was probably the most popular selection on my students' "New
> English Word Journals" the first time I ran that assignment in my
> Structure and History of English Words course, in 2003 (even though a
> google or Nexis hunt would have disabused them of its purported
> novelty.  About half of them claimed it was a portmanteau/blend of
> "crazy" + "drunk".   (Didn't we have a thread on "crunk" back around
> then, concluding this was poppycock?)
>
> LH
>
> >
> >On 2/12/08, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> >>  If you don't know what "crunk" means, you gotta be over thirty or
> >>at least closin' in!
> >>
> >>    Here's an interesting historical quote that may or may not mean
> >>squat.. I found it on a scrawled slip of paper I was about to ditch:
> >>
> >>    1994 Conan O'Brien on _Showbiz Today_ (CNN-TV) (Apr. 4):  Use
> >>our new swear word "crunk" !   It's so new that no one knows how
> >>vile and filthy it really is!
> >>
> >>    Go for it.
> >>
> >>    JL
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