Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. That which honks, as a goose; specifically, the common wild goose of America, the Canada goose, Bernicla canadensis. See cut under Bernicla.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. informal, informal The nose; -- an informal terms used in the U. S.
- n. Something that honks.
- n. The common grayish-brown wild goose (Branta canadensis) of North America; the Canada goose.
WordNet 3.0
- n. common greyish-brown wild goose of North America with a loud, trumpeting call
- n. a driver who causes his car's horn to make a loud honking sound
- n. informal terms for the nose
Etymologies
- honk + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“When traffic lights turn green, it takes a few seconds for the car to pick-up, but hardly half a second need pass when the 'honker' makes himself / herself known to all and sundry.”
“Scientists have determined that this electrical sensing equipment ends up wired to the part of the brain that processes visual information ... in other words, platypusses literally see with their honker (that is, "visual" images appear to them).”
Science Question From a Toddler: What do blind people see? Boing Boing
“Not perfectly—there are other issues, like Vitamin D deficiency, a maniac cat who jumps on me at 4:00 in the morning, and 6:00 a.m. horn honker outside who in the most loving and nonviolent way needs to be shot—but better.”
“Pearl retrieving a honker at the end of the 2006 season.”
“Ontario honker this is just a drop in the bucket of the wolves in Idaho the unit i hunt closed for wolves on Nov. 16 my grandfather shot a deer on the 18th. it was right at dark so we decided to come back at first light when we found it the only thing left was the hind quarters.”
“Yes | No | Report from dangerous game wrote 10 weeks 4 hours ago to Ontario honker: why the heck did you shoot a calf moose? did you know that's illegal?”
“Young Opal (age 2 on left) made a stunning retrieve on a honker that I never saw fall.”
“I looked over my shoulder and saw Ethyl on shore, still holding that big honker, standing there frozen as she watched my every move intently.”
“You can have two nice looking people get married in Hollywood, neither one tells the other they both had nose jobs, they give birth to a kid with a honker the size of the Baja peninsula.”
The Huffington Post: Alan Thicke: The Oscar Surgeons, or, 'How to Look Better Than You Feel'
“Yes | No | Report from matt wasson wrote 4 weeks 4 days ago ontario honker”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘honker’.
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birds
birds with singular names from
at least 9 English dictionariesaasvogel, aberdevine, accentor, accipiter, aepyornis, agami, albatross, alcatras, alcid, alcidine, amadavat, amokura and 1056 more...
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schnoz
Nose-related words
quidnunc, conk, philtrum, snub, aquiline, Roman, Greek, Nubian, button, honker, sniffer, pointer and 7 more...
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Naughty Croc Fountain
Names of fireworks.
bottle rocket, naughty croc foun..., rip the sky, Roman candle, black snake, cherry bomb, M-80, bang snaps, fan cake, dragon fart, Catherine wheel, happiness and 26 more...
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The Porn Birds
It's the winter of 2039. Global warming and rapacious development is taking a serious toll on habitat for birds all around the world. In desperation, they turn to new careers in the feather-flick...
goatsucker, french magpie, timberdoodle, butterbutt, popinjay, logcock, old cranky, long john, sprog, wedgie, bonxie, baldpate and 95 more...
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Bird Wirds: Sundry Nicknames
A list of birders' "shorthand" names, traditional nicknames, non-English names, and obsolete names for feathered creatures worldwide.
Interesting blog entry here on naming U.S. birds.welsh ambassador, goatsucker, french magpie, timberdoodle, butterbutt, popinjay, logcock, old cranky, long john, sprog, butterbum, wedgie and 697 more...
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Fictional beasties
elf, gnome, dwarf, sprite, troll, fairy, nymph, imp, brownie, sasquatch, yeti, wookiee and 574 more...
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Speech Bubble
Words from Cartoons, Comics, and Kid Stuffs
zim, squee, irken, squeedily spooch, dib, gir, gaz, dinosaucers, mxyzptlk, wuzzle, snuffleupagus, duckman and 124 more...
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That's Not a Banana
That's my nose!
nose, beak, bazooka, schnozz, honker, bugle, sneezer, old factory, schnozzola, proboscis, whiffer, trunk and 16 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for honker.
reesetee Nickname for the Canada Goose. This one's no surprise. Other folk names include: Canada hooker, crybaby, hounds, little wavey, and yelper. Dec 7, 2007