So I've seen those little gnomes with their hats covering their eyes before, but today I learned that the holiday variety have been deemed "Gonks."
I'm not a fan of them, at least in a holiday context. They're supposed to be simple fanciful creatures, not the sort of thing to be coded "Christmas-themed."
Furthermore, "
gonks" already have a meaning: balls of fur with eyes and shoes.
There are more
definitions of gonk than I thought. I don't think I've ever used the word before, but if I did I would use it as a synonym for "blockhead."
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