yonks

Definition

Slang

• noun a very long time, ages. This now popular word began to be heard in the early 1960s, mainly in middle-class usage. Its exact etymology is obscure; it may be a children’s deformation of ‘years’ or an alteration of ‘donkey’s years’.

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Contexts for “yonks”

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