honk

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With their mellow "Honk--honk," sweetest sound of all to a frontiersman's ears, harbingers of Spring indeed, far above the level of the ducks, amid the very clouds themselves, the geese, in regular triangles, winged their way toward the snow-lands.

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  1. noun The raucous, resonant sound characteristic of a wild goose.
  2. noun A sound similar to a goose's honk: blew a loud honk on the bass saxophone.
  3. noun The blaring sound of the horn on a motor vehicle.
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  • One might make the argument that hoot and honk are the same sort of thing--the British drive little cars that go hoot and Americans drive big ones that go honk.
  • Grundy jumped; naturally he understood the honk, and what it signified was this: "And you're the least significant twerp I've ever seen!" —  Golem in the Gears
  • But he saw a sudden burst of light in the midnight sky, and he heard the honk-honk of fire trucks approaching from two, then three directions! —  THE CAT WHO WENT BANANAS
  • Dancing With the Stars hoofer donned a sandwich board on March 18 and marched on the real Melrose Pl. asking folks to "honk" for her cause. —  Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider
  • Would a decent former oboist ever use the word "honk"? —  oboeinsight
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