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n. 1 The act or process of briefly submerging or immersing an object or person in a liquid, as in dunking a cookie in milk, or dunking a playmate in the swimming pool. 2 (context basketball English) Forcefully thrusting the ball through the basket from above. vb. (present participle of dunk English)
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Dunking is a form of corporal punishment used in the medieval and Early Modern (17th-18th century) period; however, it was more prominent in the middle of the 17th century.
To dunk or to dip a biscuit or some other food means to submerge it into a beverage, especially tea, coffee, or milk. Dunking releases more flavour from confections by dissolving the sugars, while also softening their texture. Dunking can be used to melt chocolate on biscuits to create a richer flavour.
Dunking is a popular way of enjoying biscuits in many countries. A popular form of dunking in Australia is the " Tim Tam Slam", also known as 'tea sucking'. The physics of dunking is driven by the porosity of the biscuit and the surface tension of the beverage. A biscuit is porous and, when dunked, capillary action draws the liquid into the interstices between the crumbs.
Dunking is first reported with ancient Romans softening their hard unleavened wafers (in Latin "bis coctum": twice baked) in wine. Modern day dunking has its roots in naval history when, in the 16th century, biscuits known as " hard tack" were on board Royal Navy ships, which were so hard that the British sailors would dunk them in beer in order to soften them up. The most popular biscuit to dunk in tea in the United Kingdom is McVitie's chocolate digestive. In the US, Oreos are frequently dunked in milk, while the Dunkin' Donuts franchise is named for the practice of dunking doughnuts into coffee. In South Africa and in India, rusks are a popular food for dunking in both tea and coffee. In the Netherlands, stroopwaffels are commonly dunked in tea or coffee, often after having been set on above the hot drink for a few minutes to melt the caramel inside.
Dunking is also used as a slang term for intinction: the Eucharistic practice of partly dipping the consecrated bread, or host, into the consecrated wine, by the officiant before distributing.
Usage examples of "dunking".
May finally broke through, dunking the ball and being fouled at the same time.
Madison had to wear multiple hats in the office of Dunking Deep Space Ltd.
He was a shipping agent, on those rare times when a Dunking chartered freighter docked at the one port on Pandaros.
He rarely ventured into the sulfuric atmosphere, and Dunking Deep Space Ltd.
Pandaros to become the charge of some other Dunking manager at a more profitable site.
Before he woke Nema, he beamed a blink stat to Madison, at Dunking on Pandaros, and asked if there d be enough value to a few hundred thousand tons of asteroid iron to warrant bringing it home.
Tob, I came within a inch of leaving when it became apparent that you had some plan that in all probability did not include working another full tour for Dunking Deep Space Limited.
Far away, on the opposite side of the galaxy, a well-bonded delivery firm had landed a brand-new second-generation Mule tug on Pandaros, the papers made out to Dunking Deep Space Ltd.
The delivery had not been announced in advance by the Dunking home office for good reason.
Thonolan had adopted the dress of the Shamudoi, and Jondalar wore the Ramudoi variation, but after his dunking in the river when he met the flatheads, he had kept a pouch of tools tied to his belt.
Down in a pool formed by a bend in the river, a bearded young man in a soggy white robe appeared to be dunking people under the water, and two long lines of people seemed to be waiting to be dunked.
Old Bart, shabby and inconspicuous, dunking pound cake with his dirty fingers, shiny over the dirt.
Later the boy is sitting in a Waldorf with two colleagues dunking pound cake.
I was tired of hiding in a church, tired of ducking splat balls, tired of dunking my mail in saltwater, and tired of being scared.
She had already lost her head-rail and wimple in the dunking, and the rest of her garments molded her body with enticing promise.