The only way that the old-timers can have gotten this name is from geography or history in school. Over a hundred years ago there was a revival of interest in Persia, for example. I knew a couple women with names like Atossa, daughter of Cyrus the Great. I haven't been able to find out any historical events involving Tunket .

One other expressions old-timers commonly used was "hotter than Tophet." This referred to a Canaanite
temple not far from Jerusalem where children were sacrificed to Molech by incineeration.

In the same period, Timbuctoo was used as a figure of speech meaning far away. I was surprised to learn that it was famous as a commercial sourse of salt, a very valuable commodity in ancient times.