Would you know what the answer was if I asked you what a gonk is?!

[Fiftyandmore]

My dc have just fallen about laughing, and assured me they've never heard of these. Maybe it's an age think. Anyone know what I mean?

That's a troll.

This is a gonk

www.homebase.co.uk/grey-santa-gonk-36cm_p571131

This is a gonk. Made for prizes on the funfair years ago

Trolls were always trolls to me in the 90s

Oh I'm all confused now! We definitely called what I posted gonks not trolls. But that was wales and we also called green beans kidney beans!

I didn't until last year when my husband commented that a woman with dyed purple hair and distinctive facial features looked like a "gonk".

Yes but am old!

If you show your children the picture that you posted what do they say it's called?!

@AlizarinRed

That’s not a gonk that’s Humpty from Playschool.

This is what I remember as being a gonk. I’m 49.

This a gonk (70s baby)

Like @Darklane posted, my Mamgu used to make them for my brother and I, round made of felt! 59 and from Wales

But Divebar Humpty Dumpty identified as a gonk!

Surely Humpty is meant to be an egg?

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This is what I remember

@Fiftyandmore

No, when I was little the pic I posted was definitely called a gonk! Maybe the terminology has changed now.

I had both and still have the trolls, the original Dam ones, rubbery creatures with hair. Also animal ones.

I also had a gonk which was a fabric cuddly toy similar to the gonks my friends had. Fabric body a bit like a Humpy Dumpty with arms and legs and round eyes.

I also have a wooden Viking troll which has fur hair.

Plus a pair of Nisses which are the pointy head ones.

They were popular at different times during the 60's and 70's but as time went by people did get confused about them, parents especially, which may have confused their children.

@Rockbird

This a gonk (70s baby)

Definitely! (60's baby)

Ebearhug Yes Humpty was an egg but in the style of a gonk, surely? We need Floella Benjamin to confirm this I think.

This is a gonk

gonk

This is what I had as a gonk as a child. This was about 1965 (as I am now mid 60s)

No-one has yet posted a picture of a fink... and I cannot as I'm on my phone!
OP you've posted a troll. The other people have posted nisse (Norwegian) or tomte (Swedish).
Gonks have wooden bodies greyish fluffy hair, they're Danish.

[fHmm] I thought it was a slang word for nose (like snoz) ...I'm 40's.

@cloudhopping that is humpty and he is an egg!

It looks like I've been wrong all these years 😯. Although @Changi agrees!

GONK
Sorry my phone autocorrected.

Yes @Rockbird - that is a gonk.

(Also a 70s' baby)

Those pointy hatted things with long beards you can buy at Christmastime? Only heard the name a few weeks ago - before I just called them "those weird Christmas gnomes".