honk
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /hɒŋk/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /hɑŋk/, /hɔŋk/
- Rhymes: -ɒŋk
Verb
[edit]honk (third-person singular simple present honks, present participle honking, simple past and past participle honked)
- (transitive, intransitive) To use a car horn.
- They stood and observed how long it took for the other cars to honk.
- (intransitive) To make a loud, harsh sound like a car horn.
- (intransitive) To make the vocal sound of a goose.
- (slang, intransitive) To vomit.
- 1992, Wayne's World (film):
- WAYNE: Phil, what are you doing here? You're partied out, man. Again.
GARTH: What if he honks in the car?
- (slang) To have a bad smell.
- (informal) To squeeze playfully, usually a breast or nose.
- She honked my titties.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to use a car horn
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to honk like a goose
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Noun
[edit]honk (countable and uncountable, plural honks)
- The harsh note produced by a typical car horn.
- 1961 July, J. Geoffrey Todd, “Impressions of railroading in the United States:Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 424:
- The operator went out on to the platform with his handlamp and waved it in the traditional "wash-out" signal across the body. The engineer had been expecting this and responded at once with an acknowledging honk on the horn before bringing this huge, 16-car train gently to a stand at the platform.
- The cry of a goose or similar bird.
- (slang) A bad smell.
Translations
[edit]the sound produced by a typical car horn
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the cry of a goose
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Interjection
[edit]honk
- Imitation of car horn, used, for example, to clear a path for oneself.
Translations
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]honk (plural honks)
- Clipping of honky.
See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Dutch honc, likely through Old Dutch from Proto-Germanic *hank-, *hunk-. Only has cognates in the Frisian languages and possibly in the Old High German placename Hancwin. Since cognates outside of Germanic are lacking, the word is probably of substrate origin.[1] Possibly related to haak (“hook”) and hoek (“corner”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]honk n (plural honken, diminutive honkje n)
- (somewhat rare) home, place where one belongs, shelter
- (games) base (safe zone, e.g. in baseball and similar sports)
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Papiamentu: honk (dated)
References
[edit]- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “honk”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
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