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n. (plural of tonk English)
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Tonks is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Benjamin Tonks (1832-1884), New Zealand politician
- Dick Tonks (born 1951), New Zealand rower
- Greig Tonks (born 1989), Scottish rugby union player
- Henry Tonks (1862-1937), English surgeon and artist
- Horace Norman Vincent Tonks (1891-1959), Anglican bishop
- Lewi Tonks (1897-1971), American quantum physicist
- Oliver Samuel Tonks (1874-1953), American academic
- Rosemary Tonks (born 1932), English author and poet
- Tony Tonks (born 1985), English rugby player
Fictional characters:
From the Harry Potter franchise:
- Andromeda Tonks
- Nymphadora Tonks
- Ted Tonks
Usage examples of "tonks".
Holding her wand like a conductors baton, Tonks made the trunk hover across the room and out of the door ahead of them, Hedwig's cage in her left hand.
Lupin and Tonks folÂlowed, carrying Harry's trunk between them, the rest of the guard, all with their wands out, flanking them.
He looked over his shoulder and saw the others filing in behind him, Lupin and Tonks carrying his trunk and Hedwig's cage.
He pushed it open and saw Mr and Mrs Weasley, Sirius, Lupin and Tonks sitting there almost as though they were waiting for him.
The figures of Tonks, Lupin, Moody and Mr and Mrs Weasley shrank rapidly but the black dog was bounding alongside the window, wagging its tail.
What if he had deduced that the Weasleys, Lupin, Tonks and Moody knew where Sirius was hiding?
Moody gave Harry another shove between the shoulder blades to urge him forward and Tonks leaned close to the glass, looking up at the very ugly dummy, her breath steaming up the glass.
Next second, his mouth opened in shock as the dummy gave a tiny nod and beckoned with its jointed finger, and Tonks had seized Ginny and Mrs Weasley by the elbows, stepped right through the glass and vanished.
Mad-Eye and Tonks went in and closed the door of the ward behind them.
At first, Harry could hear nothing, then he jumped as he heard Tonks whispering as clearly as though she were standing right beside him.
Across the room Harry saw Tonks fall from halfway up the stone steps, her limp form toppling from stone seat to stone seat and Bellatrix, triumphant, running back towards the fray.
Mad-Eye Moody had crawled across the room to where Tonks lay, and was attempting to revive her.
Holding her wand like a conductor's baton, Tonks made the trunk hover across the room and out of the door ahead of them, Hedwig's cage in her left hand.
Lupin and Tonks followed, carrying Harry's trunk between them, the rest of the guard, all with their wands out, flanking them.
Maybe that's why Kreacher won't take orders from her - he's supposed to do whatever anyone in the family asks him -' 'You and Tonks are related?