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I am so excited! I just read about this word this very day at lunch, while I was reading through a 25-year-old book on Canadian English. I'd never heard it before. Here's what my book had to say:
gunk hole - (marked in the Dictionary of Canadianisms as a localism) 'tiny cove with deep water right to the shore'; thus to gunk-hole is to move from one such cove to another, fishing and idling.
Talk about serendipity!
(From Our Own Voice: Canadian English and how it came to be, R. E. McConnell, Gage Publishing Limited, Toronto, 1978.)
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted gunkholing grahamknox 07/25/02 02:35 PM Re: gunkholing wwh 07/25/02 02:52 PM Re: gunkholing Bean 07/25/02 03:38 PM Re: gunkholing Jackie 07/26/02 10:58 AM Re: gunkholing Bean 07/26/02 12:07 PM sloughing off a slew of sloughs Hyla 07/26/02 02:59 PM
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