Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Moisture; humidity; water. · Dankness; a dark, moist and usually unpleasant atmosphere. · Strong, high-quality cannabis.
Dark, damp and humid. · Moist and sticky, (by extension) highly potent. · Great, awesome. · Expounding right-wing views in a cool way; based.
From Middle English danke (“wet, damp; dampness, moisture”), probably from North Germanic, related to Swedish dank (“marshy spot”), Icelandic dökk (“pool”), Old Norse dǫkk (“pit, depression”), from Proto-Germanic *dankwaz (“dark”). However, some trace it to a West Germanic source such as Dutch damp (“vapor”) or Middle High German damph, both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dampaz (“smoke, steam, vapor”). Modern slang senses derived from the drug sense; compare based (“awesome, especially in a right-wing context online”) from drug terminology freebased.
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