What's the difference between dank and donk?

Dank


Definition:

  • (a.) Damp; moist; humid; wet.
  • (n.) Moisture; humidity; water.
  • (n.) A small silver coin current in Persia.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And with the grimy dual carriageway of the Cromwell Road cutting across it, it's no wonder that many pedestrians preferred to take the dank Victorian tunnel that runs under Exhibition Road from the tube station to the Science Museum.
  • (2) Last year, the winner was Glasgow-born Susan Philipsz , for a sound installation she created in the seedy, dank shadow of a bridge over the Clyde.
  • (3) Mayor Boris Johnson, whose default setting has been relentless and sometimes improbable cheerleading in the face of serious concerns and minor niggles, promised with typical restraint that as the flame "spreads through the city its radiance will dispel any last clouds of dankness and anxiety that may hover over some parts of the media".
  • (4) I got quite emotional when I finished the book because I thought…" He lets the sentence hang and looks out of the window at the murky drizzle of a dank November evening.
  • (5) Come on Man City, you know you want him ..." Danke schon, dear readers, and auf wiedersehen.
  • (6) The men work on nearby construction sites, while the women spend their days in the dank, artificially lit alleys, stripping wire for copper and selling trinkets from closet-sized stalls.
  • (7) Danke!”) It rubs hard against an England fan’s sensibilities; to say nothing of an England Jewish-from-refugee-stock fan’s sensibilities.
  • (8) With the dank, fetid winds of manmade climate change blowing our way and worries over Russian military ambitions there has been much talk of Armageddon.
  • (9) Players of Philipp Lahm’s remarkable stature cannot be replaced; square pegs and round holes come to mind, but even during a period of some transition, these are the world champions – and in case anybody was forgetting, the players were greeted by a mosaic at one end of the ground reading “Danke” when they made their way on to the pitch.
  • (10) 8.00pm BST How far into the dank confines of the House Republican brain would you like to climb?
  • (11) Make no mistake about it: I was touched that 14 people would bother to come watch me in a dank, dark cave on a wet Wednesday afternoon.
  • (12) "Danke" says one in his native language in St Peter's Square.
  • (13) A severely mentally retarded girl is presented, with symptoms as described by Pitt, Rogers, and Danks (pre- and postnatal growth retardation, and unusual facies).
  • (14) She is played by Marion Bailey , and it is no exaggeration to say that when she arrives on screen, it is as if a column of soothing sunlight has fallen upon a dank meadow.
  • (15) From the look of recent production stills (grim pedestrian subways, dank council estates, McKay looking haunted): really not that easy.
  • (16) If you're a large corporation looking to wring the UK government for every penny it has and then some, these are the places you look – away from the main traffic of public discourse, in the dank side streets, where careers get lost and battles become too dirty to yield a clear victor – probation, adult social care, prisons, tagging, court interpretation.
  • (17) We showed previously that nuclear extracts from teniposide (VM-26)-resistant sublines of the human leukemic cell line, CCRF-CEM, exhibited decreased DNA topoisomerase II activity and ability to form drug-stabilized covalent protein-DNA complexes (Danks et al., Biochemistry 27:8861-8869; 1988).
  • (18) Most of the lines resemble atypical MDR cells (Danks et al., 1987; Beck et al., 1987).
  • (19) From the movies, you’d think Manhattan to be riddled with dank, dangerous, trash-strewn back-alleys, complete with rusting fire escapes and crumbling, graffiti-covered brick walls.
  • (20) European stock markets are inching higher on a dank morning in London, with traders warmed by the news that China's trade surplus swelled to its highest level in almost five years.

Donk


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Maybe there's a banging donk as it kicks in, or a dubstep drop before the fade-out.
  • (2) "We are doing this because we have had complaints from Dutch neurologists about the way the doctors are treating the patients," said Karen Donk of the inspectorate.
  • (3) "Howard Kendall Mint Cake, Ian Walkers, Pepsi Reina, Paul Robinson's," chants Andrew Kearney, a cut-price marketing-obsessed version of Le Donk.
  • (4) Mathijsen leaps to meet it but donks his header high and wide.
  • (5) 8.29pm BST 44 min: Mulgrew curls a ball around for Stoke, who had made a good run ... but can't find a finish to match, donking it high and wide from 15 yards.