gronk

noun5

1. •
   a harsh grating sound.
2. •
   The cry of a raven.

   • Silence rang in my ears, punctuated by the occasional gronk of the ravens, as they flitted about in the spruce trees. — 2006
3. •
   A mating call of the Albert's lyrebird.

   • We then viewed the audio spectrogram...and measured the timing of each gronk. — 2024
4. •
   (informal, offensive) An unintelligent and callous person.
5. •
   (UK, slang) A British Rail Class 08 shunter locomotive, or similar shunters.

verb3

1. •
   To make a gronking sound.

   • A raven gronked along the timber-covered ridge line, and a cool breeze swept down from the snow-covered peaks. — 2001
2. •
   (slang) Of a floppy disk drive: to produce mechanical sounds of operation.

   • […] a disk drive gronked, her screen bloomed, and suddenly there was an icon in the upper right corner. — 1993
3. •
   (slang, rare) To fail; to crash or go wrong.

   • Repeats the last 40 lines of IRC output, in case your terminal gronked. — 1992

noun1

1. •
   (UK) A British Rail Class 09 locomotive.