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?

Until today I thought that these were gonks, but apparently they are weepuls

@Cloudhopping

PleasantVille the picture I posted was of Humpty Dumpty from Playschool and I have believed for the last 49 years that she/he was definitely a gonk-please don’t tell me I’m wrong?

I googled @Cloudhopping. and look what popped up

yes because my mum used to make them as a homeworking job- the fumes from the glue could have got you completely off your head

I agree with @Rockbird. That’s a gonk. You’d win it at the shows by throwing a wooden hoop over a wooden oblong.

I’m 57 and I would call Humpty a gonk.

Pleasantville no, no say it isn’t so! What does Kirstie know about gonks anyway-now where is Floella when you need her?

@VQ1970 your picture is the only one on this thread of what I'd call a gonk! I'm 51 and Scottish. I remember them having a lot of plastic as well as fluff.

59 and I know what a gonk is. These days I look into a mirror and see one.

Humpty was a gonk.

Yes a troll like doll

Who would have thought this would be so contentious.

Over 50. Knew I’d know it when I read it.
Before I was reminded I guessed a type of fish !

Late 30s and I know.

@Rockbird

This a gonk (70s baby)

That's what I think of as a gonk.

Rockbird has it ! I was born 1964

@PragmaticPrinciple
I'm sorry, but that is - or was - a gonk. In my childhood, trolls were warty monsters that lived under bridges in fairy tales. Those plastic figures with outstretched arms and brightly coloured long hair were gonks. At primary school (early 1970s) mine had royal blue hair, and I also found (or maybe appropriated) a pencil topper gonk with green hair.
It is only of recent years that I have heard them called trolls.

Another picture of what I would call gonks!

Adding my vote to Rockbird et al - to me a gonk is fully hairy, usually brightly coloured. Born 1970

Well I'll have to concede that the things I've spent my entire life (mid 50's) calling gonks are in fact trolls! The earth has tilted on its axis!

I clicked on here because I thought it sounded like something dirty 😂

I'm with @Time40 - the other things are trolls.

I'm also early 50s and I know what a honk is - I got one for Christmas in 1970something - like this (only mine was neon orange with white fur underneath). I called mine Geoffrey Gonk!!

I'm 58 and I know - seem to remember them being prizes at the fun fair lol

*gonk - autocorrect clearly doesn't know what a gonk is!!

Fairgrounds were most definitely associated with gonks.