Bonking: the Language of Love

The language of love: do frogs bonk? Here in my mountain retreat, I often hear frogs calling to one another. I wonder what they’re up to? Could they be ‘bonking’? To help me, I’ve taken an imaginative journey into the world of frogs and I’ll pretend that we have specimens from Holland, the UK, USA Italy and Spain. In Dutch, bonk literally means bone or else has something to do with bone or a mass of flesh. Could my Dutch frogs be boning? I’ll dig a little further into the Nether-regions of Dutch frogs. Bonk apparently also refers to a piece of the old copper bar money of the Dutch East Indies. So… money is involved in this bonking activity? How very Dutch… Let’s close the curtains on Holland for a moment and move to Spain. Roughly translated, my Spanish frogs bonk in these terms: “*** or *** un golpe en la nariz a alguien”. The Italians: “k/ vt sl scopare”. Well, what could they be up to? For the Yankee bonkers, their activity has a lot to do with stamina athleticism and furious pedal pumping (A term used in the USA by long-distance cyclists to describe the disorientation and muscular fatigue resulting from depletion of glycogen stores and abnormally low levels of glucose in the blood (known medically as hypoglycaemia). For the Brits, bonking has a lot to do with hitting and the production of reverberating sounds, they even go so far as ‘banging’. So… I wonder why some folk think that bonk refers to sexual intercourse? I’m sure my frogs are quite innocent (even if there seem to be lots of them around).