Honky-tonk

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Honky-tonk

Definition: Honky-tonk

Honky-tonk

Noun

1. A cheap drinking and dancing establishment honkytonk n : a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Honky-tonk

Synonyms: barrelhouse (n), dive (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Honky-tonk

DomainTitle

Books

  • Honky-Tonk Cinderella (Silhoutee Intimate Moments, No. 1120) (reference)

  • Honky-Tonk Town (reference)

  • Notes from a Battered Grand: A Memoir/Fifty Years of Music, from Honky-Tonk to High Society (reference)

  • Reading Country Music: Steel Guitars, Opry Stars, and Honky-Tonk Bars (reference)

  • Lefty Frizzell: The Honky-Tonk Life of Country Music's Greatest Singer (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Honky-tonk

"Honky-tonk" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Honky-tonk" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)66.67%2245,945
Noun (singular)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Honky-tonk

Language Translations for "honky-tonk"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

lebuj (jerry-shop, jook-juke joint). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ホルモン療法 (14 March, holocaust, hologram, holograph, holographic, holography, Honda, Honduras, hormone therapy, horn, horoscope, phon, short-sleeved dress shirt, white, White Day, white gasoline, white gold, White House, white liquor, white meat, white noise, white pepper, white sauce, white space, white tie, whiteboard, white-collar, Whitehall). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ホンキートンク . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

onky-tonkhay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

дешевый бар или ночной клуб. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

quán chui. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Honky-tonk

Misspellings

"Honky-tonk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: honkytonk. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Honky-tonk

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "h-k-k-n-n-o-o-t-y"

-4 letters: honky, hooky, hooty, kooky, nooky, toyon.

-5 letters: honk, hook, hoot, knot, konk, kook, koto, nook, noon, onto, tony, took, toon, toyo.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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