On the menu: necessity mess, potato bargain, and other tasty regional foods that won’t break the bank. Plus, what’s a doomaflatchie? And what do you have to do before you rest on your laurels? Grant and Martha share idioms, proverbs, and...
What does it mean to gronk the data? A listener from the medical device business wonders about the techie word “gronk,” which first popped up in Robert Heinlein’s 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land. Grant also mentions Jeff...
gronk n.— «The work “gronk” does not have its genesis in ethnic youth. I first encountered this term while working as a psychologist in the NSW prison system in the mid-1980s. This term has gained a more widespread usage since...
gronk n.— «Today, anything that is cool is sik while a gronk is someone who might previously have been called an idiot.» —“Language grows as teens go sik” MX (Melbourne, Australia) July 2, 2002. (source: Double...
gronk n.— «Those were the days when myth said heroin was just another drug, a creative juice, before methadone and dereliction, before decent people turned into evil little gronks, before so many talented people died.» —“Where the...
gronk n.— «They talk about the “gronks”—those prisoners who don’t shower or carry any personal dignity.» —“Nine Double-Header On Crime And Corruption” by R. Gibson Courier-Mail (Australia) June...