Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The raucous, resonant sound characteristic of a wild goose.
- n. A sound similar to a goose's honk: blew a loud honk on the bass saxophone.
- n. The blaring sound of the horn on a motor vehicle.
- v. To emit a honk.
- v. To cause (a horn) to produce a honk.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The cry of the wild goose.
- To emit the cry of the wild goose.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive, intransitive To use a car horn.
- v. intransitive To make a sound like a car horn.
- v. intransitive To make the sound of a goose.
- v. informal To vomit: regurgitate the contents of one's stomach.
- n. The sound produced by a typical car horn.
- n. The cry of a goose.
- interj. Imitation of car horn, used, for example, to clear a path for oneself.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) The cry of a wild goose.
- n. To make a sound like the honk of a goose.
- n. To sound the horn on an automobile or other motor vehicle.
WordNet 3.0
- v. use the horn of a car
- v. eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
- n. the cry of a goose (or any sound resembling this)
- v. cry like a goose
- v. make a loud noise
Etymologies
- (onomatopoeia) (Wiktionary)
- Imitative. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“She listened, but she did not hear his _honk, honk, honk_!”
“_Honk, honk, honk_, cried the old Wild Goose, from the sheltered marsh where he did not know what was going on.”
“* honk honk*. .and who the ***** invited the word "tween"!?”
“She stood on the street for what we call a honk and wave.”
“But his honk was the anomaly, "shave and a haircut" from his LTD about half a block away meant to let his wife know he was pulling into the driveway soon.”
“The cheese gives off the kind of honk that the cartoonists from the Beano indicate with wavy green lines, fainting dentists and gasping kids with pegs on their noses.”
“Kurt Vonnegut called it a "honk"; it was thought to be "British.”
“It gave a couple of shrill squeaks which were answered by a noncommittal "honk" from one of the adults.”
“He can hit his bird on the wing every time, and he can 'honk' so's to fool any goose alive, and find the best blinds of anybody 'longshore.”
“Each time, at the first faint "honk," we got quickly to the windows or out on deck, and stood waiting for the beautiful V-shaped flight to come swinging into our sky-lane.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘honk’.
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UK - slang
chin wag, arse about, bollock, starkers, sweet Fanny Adams, skive, shufti, codswallop, rhyming slang, bollocks, nookie, skew-whiff and 208 more...
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Sounds
words that describe sound
atchoo, atishoo, babble, bam, bay, beep, blast, blather, bleat, bleep, blip, bong and 242 more...
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onomatopoeias (1 syllable)
1 syllable words that mean what they sound like.
(dictionaried or un-dictionaried words | onomatopoeic in nature)
onomatopoeias (2 syllable) | onomatopoeias (3+ syllables)
gush, buzz, pop, woof, boo, bam, bang, bash, bump, clang, clap, click and 106 more...
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sound (loud)
words for loud sounds
( open list, descriptive, randomness )
also see:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopo...crash, thud, bump, thump, boom, smash, explode, roar, scream, screech, short, yell and 168 more...
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onomatopoeias
words that sound like they sound.
beep, honk, hiccup, purr, crash, zip, snore, dhak dhak, poomp, awooga, zmurck, noogle and 3 more...
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Onk-tastic
Words containing the sound /ŏngk/.
Algonquin, Cronkite, Tonka, Tonkin, Wonka, Yonkers, bonk, bonkers, bronco, broncobuster, conk, conker and 53 more...
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Animal voices
wuff, snort, chirp, baa, moo, meow, oink, bark, woof, grr, purr, hiss and 24 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, H
hurlyburly, hurtle, hodgepodge, heartwood, hatch, halo, hooptedoodle, hacienda, hairpin, heyday, hardscrabble, hopper and 208 more...
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vinyl's Words
deliverator, finna, metric fuckton, fag, hyphy, ginormous, sacrilicious, fantabulous, macaca, n-word, pterodactyl, genious and 560 more...
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menagerie a trois
Names of our family pets.
shog, jake, purdy, ernie, victoria peckham, gregory, yellow, kif, pepsi, yoko, marmalade, jo and 37 more...
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animal sound verbs
limited to non-onomatopoeic words
chitter, gibber, hum, buzz, chirrup, mew, whistle, boom, bellow, caterwaul, fink, low and 49 more...
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Animal Sounds
with sound effects.
screech, hiss, growl, hum, buzz, chirrup, chirp, tweet, birdsong, whistle, bleat, meow and 30 more...
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Quilp's Words
ankh, bung, zest, yawl, xeno, wart, vile, urge, tart, shag, runt, quim and 16 more...
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Ugly Words
hoary, coarse, ignoramus, gout, visceral, writhe, shriek, sour, move, unctuous, psoriasis, echinacea and 66 more...
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Animal Sounds
woof, ruff, bow wow, yap, arf, yip, mew, meow, moo, oink, growl, roar and 27 more...
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