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Verb: honk hóngk- Make a strident noise
"The horns of the taxis honked"; - blare, beep, claxon, toot, parp [informal], klaxon - Use the horn of a car
- claxon, parp [informal], klaxon - Cry like a goose
"The geese were honking"; - cronk - [Brit, informal] Eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
"After drinking too much, the students honked"; - vomit, vomit up, purge, sick, cat [informal], be sick, disgorge, regorge [archaic], retch, barf [informal], spew [informal], spue [archaic], chuck [informal], upchuck [N. Amer, informal], regurgitate, throw up, vom [informal], keck [informal], hurl [informal], chuck up [Brit, informal], chunder [Brit, informal], boke [UK, dialect], boak [UK, dialect] Noun: honk hóngk- The cry of a goose (or any sound resembling this)
- The sound from a car horn
Derived forms: honked, honking, honks Type of: cry, egest, eliminate, emit, excrete, go, let loose, let out, make noise, noise, pass, resound, sound, utter Encyclopedia: Honk, the Moose |