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Yonk, What Measure Of Time Unit?

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Arksided | 17:45 Wed 10th Jul 2013 | Science
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Hi all, if someone says I've not heard this for yonk's, as an EG. what measure of time is a yonk? nano second, minute, hour, day, month, year? any help appreciated.
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Nothing too definite, a possibility of a derivation of 'donkeys years'

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/yonks
3 months and 13 days, apparently
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Yonk
I bet a lot of men with beer bellies say what Bob said in urban dictionary in
WyeDyed's link, lol! You've set me off again. I told you yonks ago what a yonk was!
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Ahh makes a sense now, thank you both.
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^ stalker. ;-)
I have always taken it that one yonk = one year.
Who yonked your chain,lol!^6
It's 'donkey's' multiplied by 'umpteen'.
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Yep that's what I figured. Umpteen times another good one.
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I guess that'd depend on which way around the planet you'd be flying or any other means. Swimming I think will take a yonk or two.
LOL ^^^^
EE BY gum!
It's that time beyond the memory of the person speaking. (Taking them to be normal).
yonk = ages, but what's an age ??!
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mmm not sure... many yonks I guess.
Whenever I say yonks, I mean a long time, but then again, how long is a long time - this could go on for ever (lol).
Mmmmmmm, how deep is a hole ?.
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Infinity welcomes careful drivers, but no mention of a yonk ;-)
Yonkers or Younkers was reference to young boys aboard ships in the days of full sailed vessels. The word yonks was then used to refer back to the days when one was a yonker. It certainly is a very very long time in my case.

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