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013loudmouth t1_itpsgup wrote

never once in my life heard anyone refer to dunks as dunkies

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MatthewMcDerpFace t1_itq276b wrote

I accept the bottom 3, I have never heard a single person say "Dunkin" despite them marketing it like that. I feel like Dunkies was a 90s south shore thing.

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Reaper0700 t1_itq4gas wrote

Yup, I'm from the South Shore in the 90's. I and all my friends from there call it 'Dunkies' or 'Dunks' depending on sentence construction. But not a lot of others seem to use 'Dunkies'.

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coolpotato14 t1_itqnefm wrote

I usually say dunks.. but dunkies adds some extra flair. My daughter used to call it dunkie donies when she was little and I still call it that sometimes for fun lol

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FopFiller1312 OP t1_itq590g wrote

I've always said dunks, but I've met people who are more "Boston" than I who say dunkies

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Davidicus12 t1_itr7foa wrote

Same thought. Lived here my whole life and haven’t heard dunkies even once

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