tunket

English

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Noun

tunket (uncountable)

  1. (US, dialect, archaic, euphemistic) Hell (intensifier in "what the hell" and similar phrases).
    • 1871, Scribner's Monthly, an Illustrated Magazine for the People (page 630)
      What in tunket are you making such a to-do about it for? Any girl would be tickled to death to have me use her things to ornament my room.
    • 1885, John Vance Cheney, The Old Doctor (page 172)
      Confeound [sic] it! Everything in its place, and a place in everything; where'n tunket's the shovel?
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