dank

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   unpleasantly damp, cold, and humid

   The cellar was dank and smelled of mildew.

Simplified etymology

Dank is a Middle English word of Germanic origin. Despite its similarity in form and meaning to damp, the two words were not originally related.

From Middle English dank ('wet, moist'), probably of Scandinavian origin, related to Swedish dialect dänka ('to moisten').

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