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Honk   /hɑŋk/  /hɔŋk/   Listen
Honk

noun
1.
The cry of a goose (or any sound resembling this).
verb
1.
Make a loud noise.  Synonyms: beep, blare, claxon, toot.
2.
Use the horn of a car.  Synonym: claxon.
3.
Cry like a goose.  Synonym: cronk.
4.
Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth.  Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up.  "He purged continuously" , "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night"



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"Honk" Quotes from Famous Books



... de bushes!—don't you hear de wil' goose cry An' de honk de great beeg gander he was makin' up above? On de lake dey call Two Mountain is de place dey 're goin' fly, But only spen' de night-tam, for dey 're alway on de move; Jus' see de shadder dancin' up an' down, up an' down, You t'ink dem geese was passin' in an' out between de ...
— The Voyageur and Other Poems • William Henry Drummond
... was wrong. Something had come into the blind—a winged, fluttering thing, out of the empyrean—and even Uncle Dudley had not seen or heard it, and never a honk or a quack warned anybody, or heralded the unseen coming of the ...
— Blue-Bird Weather • Robert W. Chambers
... noons you can hear through the waiting, echoing air the laughing shouts of playing children and the low-dropping honk of the wild geese that in a scarcely quivering line are sailing northward across the reedy lowlands which the gentle spring rains will turn into soft, violet, ...
— Green Valley • Katharine Reynolds
... February afternoon to see the plover rise from the tussocks of brown grass at your feet, and go flying and wailing above you, in that broken-winged, broken-hearted way of theirs, or to watch the duck flying home across the sunset, with their strange honk-honk! ...
— Lynton and Lynmouth - A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland • John Presland
... "You might of sent your honk-honk to the train for us though. Cost us a dollar from the station. What d'ye think of that? Don't like the ladies, do you, Mr. Benham?" ...
— Paradise Garden - The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment • George Gibbs


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