Meaning of yonks | Babel Free

Definitions

A long time (especially a longer time than expected); ages

Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, plural, plural-only, slang

Examples

“Haven’t seen him in yonks!”

“I’ve been a teacher for yonks–I should really try another career.”

“This egg is taking yonks to boil.”

“I rang singer Julie Driscoll […] She said: "I haven't heard from you for yonks[…]"”

“Alas, the comics for that age group have nearly all picture stories today—and of course the ones for younger readers have been that way for yonks (sorry, years).”

“It's what Miss Brunskill calls ‘our little backwater’. We're more or less fixtures there and have been for yonks.”

““Yonks,” he replies when I ask how long he's been stateside. “It's not like I've become American. I'm in England every year.””

CEFR level