Definitions

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  • noun a mythical creature, said to inhabit Pennsylvanian forests and to dissolve into a pool of tears if captured

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Examples

  • Seconds Out is good (we used to play squonk), but Three Sides Live is crisper.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Favorite Live Album 2009

  • As it charged it gave forth an unexpectedly farcical roar that Flinx could only describe as a squonk.

    Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995

  • As it charged it gave forth an unexpectedly farcical roar that Flinx could only describe as a squonk.

    Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995

  • The creativity and musicianship here is top-flight but also accessible, so you don't have to be an avant-squonk aficionado to appreciate it.

    Colorado Springs Independent letters@csindy.com 2010

  • The creativity and musicianship here is top-flight but also accessible, so you don't have to be an avant-squonk aficionado to appreciate it.

    Colorado Springs Independent letters@csindy.com 2010

  • The creativity and musicianship here is top-flight but also accessible, so you don't have to be an avant-squonk aficionado to appreciate it.

    Colorado Springs Independent 2010

  • The creativity and musicianship here is top-flight but also accessible, so you don't have to be an avant-squonk aficionado to appreciate it.

    Colorado Springs Independent 2010

  • His wind power yields alternately a mellifluous run, a guttural riff or fuzzy, punctuated squonk.

    JamBase 2008

  • You could look up who Cathy Berberian was, learn of mysterious substances such as retsina or kirschwasser or Brut, or discover that a squonk was “a mythical woodland creature, originating in Pennsylvania,” which spent most of its time crying because of how ugly it was.

    My Unlikely Connection to Steely Dan Condé Nast 2022

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  • have you seen a squonk's tears

    well look at mine

    December 1, 2008

  • Are these similar to the legends of the wonks?

    December 1, 2008

  • Policy wonks?

    December 2, 2008

  • A mythical beast that weeps continually at its own ugliness. When surprised it dissolves entirely into tears. (via futilitycloset.com)

    January 10, 2010

  • As we see from the quotes, though, there is another definition; it's some sort of amorphous, arhythmic music played mostly on rock instruments, I think. I've heard some of Captain Beefheart's stuff described with it. Based on the word, you can probably guess what it sounds like.

    March 7, 2012