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Definition: Honk |
HonkNoun1. The cry of a goose (or any sound resembling this). Verb1. Make a loud noise; "The horns of the taxis blared". 2. Use the horn of a car. 3. Cry like a goose; "The geese were honking". 4. Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "honk" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1909. (references) |
Note: Honk \Honk\, noun. [Of imitative origin.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang | Adjective. Source: Noun: The sound of a wild goose or an automobile horn. (slang): white person. Definition: There is too much mid-range in the equalizer. Sounds like a goose or as if you were talking through your nose. Context: To describe a specific musical sound. Social Source: Band Members (Musicians and Singers). Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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Synonyms: HonkSynonyms: barf (v), be sick (v), beep (v), blare (v), cast (v), cat (v), chuck (v), claxon (v), cronk (v), disgorge (v), puke (v), regorge (v), regurgitate (v), retch (v), sick (v), spew (v), spue (v), throw up (v), toot (v), upchuck (v), vomit (v), vomit up (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: keep down (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Honk |
| English words defined with "honk": Yang. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Honk" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (aim, goal, purpose, target), Faeroese (handle, knob). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Except at that guy who made sound effects. Vroom! Beep! Honk! Honk (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) And if I spew, chances are someone else is gonna honk, alright (Saturday Night Live; writing credit: Doug Abeles; Leo Allen) Frog in the swamp, where mosquitoes and fireflies roam, Where if you're rod toed, you stay out of the road, Cause the cars that go by, they don't honk. (Muppet Babies; writing credit: Katherine Lawrence; Jeffrey Scott) Great Honk! (The Music Man; writing credit: Meredith Willson; Franklin Lacey) Wrong, Honk! (The Karate Kid, Part II; writing credit: Robert Mark Kamen) | |
Clever | Honk If Anything Falls Off. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Honk Your Horn (1930) | |
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Theater & Movies | |
Music |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Honk!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Bulb horn honk. | | Mallard duck honk. |
| Brief honk. | ||
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| "Honk" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 69.23% of the time. "Honk" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 69.23% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 30.77% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "honk": honk-honks. | |
Ending with "honk": ker-honk. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
honk | 64 |
honk musical | 26 |
honk kong | 8 |
bank honk kong | 4 |
honk lyrics | 3 |
honk horn | 3 |
honk the ugly duckling | 2 |
honk if jesus love | 2 |
honk honk | 2 |
honk truck.com | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "honk"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gagaritje e patave, gagarit (quack), e rënë borie (blow, tootle, trumpet call), bie borisë (blare, toot, tootle). (various references) | |
Arabic | صياح الأوز, صفر بالزامور, بوق (blare, bugle, cornet, euphonium, horn, megaphone, proboscis, sound, toot, tootle, trump, trumpet). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | крясък (clamor, clamour, cry, hoot, scream, shriek, squawk, whoop, yell), кряскам (chatter, whoop). (various references) | |
Chinese | 汽车喇叭声 (hoot), 嘟 (toot). (various references) | |
Czech | houkat (beep, toot), houkání (hoot, hooting, toot, whoop), troubit (beep, blare, hoot), troubení (call, hoot, toot), kejhat (cackle, gaggle), kejhání divokých husí. (various references) | |
Farsi | صدای غازوحشی یابوق ماشین وامثال ان . (various references) | |
Finnish | törähdys (blast hoot). (various references) | |
French | klaxonner, corner (hoot, horn), caqueter. (various references) | |
German | hupen (hoot). (various references) | |
Greek | κορνάρω (blow one΄s horn, honk one's horn, toot). (various references) | |
Hebrew | צויחת אוז בר. (various references) | |
Hungarian | vadlibagágogás, autóduda hangja. (various references) | |
Indonesian | bunyi klakson. (various references) | |
Italian | suono di clacson, suonare il clacson (hoot, toot), lanciare il richiamo, grido dell'anatra selvatica, dare un colpo di clacson. (various references) | |
Manx | sheidey (blowing, breathe, breeze, distention, fill out, gust, puff, sound, spell of wind, spout), feiyral (clamour, clatter, noise, rowdy, sound, tinkle, vociferous), feiyr (clatter, din, noise, rowdiness; scurvy grass, sound). (various references) | |
Norwegian | tute (hoot), tut. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | onkhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tocar (play), grasnido do ganso, grasnar (caw), buzinar (trumpet), buzina (hooter, horn, klaxon). (various references) | |
Romanian | grohãi (grunt), claxona (toot), ţipa (bawl, call, cry, hoop, hoot, pipe, roar, scream, screech, shout, shriek, squall, squeal, yell). (various references) | |
Russian | сигналить (beep), крик диких гусей, гудеть гудок (beep, toot). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zvuk automobilske trube, trubiti (beep, blare, blow, toot, tootle), gakati (cackle, caw, quack), gakanje (cackling, caw, gaggle, quack). (various references) | |
Spanish | graznido (quack, squawk). (various references) | |
Swedish | tutande (tootle), tuta (hoot), snattra (gaggle, gibber, quack), snatter (gabble, jabber, quack). (various references) | |
Thai | เสียงแตรรถยนต์, เสียงห่านร้อง, บีบแตร, ร้องเสียงห่าน. (various references) | |
Turkish | korna sesi (beep, hoot, peep, toot), klâkson sesi, klâkson çalmak, kaz sesi çıkarmak (gaggle), kaz sesi, ötmek (caw, coo, crow, hoop, hoot, jug, sing, sing out, warble, whistle). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tarlamak (hoot), юuwlamak (buzz, hoot). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сигналити, рохкання (grunt), хрюкання (grunt), кричати (bawl, call, chirp, clamor, clamour, cry, exclaim, holler, noise, shout, sing out, toot, vociferate, yawl, yell), автомобільний гудок. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tiếng kêu của ngỗng trời tiếng còi ô tô. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "honk": honked, honker, honkers, honkey, honkeys, honkie, honkies, honking, honks, honky. (additional references) | |
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"Honk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chonku, hanc, henc, henk, henki, Hinc, Hink, Hinku, Hoak, hocn, hoek, hoik, Hok, hon, hona, honke, honki, honn, honny, hono, honr, hony, hoon, hork, Hornak, Howk, hunc, huni, huon, Ohno, onk, shonk, thonk, yonk, zonk. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "honk" (pronounced hÄ"ngk) |
| 3 | -Ä" ng k | bonk, bronc, conch, conk. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-k-n-o" | |
-1 letter: hon, noh. | |
-2 letters: ho, no, oh, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-k-n-o" | |
+1 letter: honks, honky. | |
+2 letters: bohunk, hoking, honked, honker, honkey, honkie, shnook, unhook. | |
+3 letters: bohunks, chinook, choking, hocking, holking, honkers, honkeys, honkies, honking, hooking, howking, inkhorn, monkish, schnook, shnooks, unchoke, unhooks. | |
+4 letters: chinooks, chocking, cornhusk, dockhand, elkhound, gunkhole, handbook, handwork, hawknose, hoicking, hokiness, hoodwink, hooknose, hornbook, hornlike, hymnbook, inkhorns, keeshond, kinghood, kneehole, knothole, krumhorn, monkfish, monkhood, outthank, outthink, pachinko, schnooks, shocking, sinkhole, sunchoke, unchoked, unchokes, unhooked, unkosher. | |
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