Date:  Thu, 15 Feb 1996 03:51:08 -0800

From:  SETH SKLAREY <crissiet[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IX.NETCOM.COM>

Subject: Re: two questions: boink and fish shan



My sister was the only one I ever heard say "bunk your head" meaning hit

your head.

New Jersey. She was born 1925.



>Oh my gosh. I've always used bonk in to mean hitting your head. "Don't

>bonk your head on the doorway" or "They bonked heads when they bent down to

>clean up the mess together." My mother always used bonk in this sense and

>in no other context. I always wondered why my mother-in-law did a double

>take when I told her that my little daughter got bonked on the head!!

>

>Does anyone else have this usage? Please?

>