A giant kamikaze coyote, still the biggest I've ever seen, leaped from the left ditch and smacked into the front of the Ford with a whunk so hard it sounded like we'd hit cow.
This note looks at the new words Hemingway has contributed to our language from "crut" to "whunk"; the foreign language borrowings he has given currency--such as bal musette, cojones, and tenente; and even the words reflecting Hemingway himself, such as "Hemingwayesque" and "Hemingwayan."
Hemingway is also credited with the first use of the word "Whunk," as in "We had both heard the whunk of the bullet" (Green Hills of Africa 53, same page in paperback issue).