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honking

verbnounadjectiveadverbcommon in dialogue

  • United States

A sound that honks.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of honkpresent participle and gerund of honk

noun

  1. 1

    A sound that honks.

    We listened to the distant honkings of the geese on the lake.

adjective

  1. 1

    slangHaving a bad smell.

  2. 2

    slangTerrible.

  3. 3

    Variant of honkin'slangAlternative spelling of honkin'.

adverb

  1. 1

    Variant of honkin'slangAlternative spelling of honkin'.

Forms

plural
honkings
comparative
more honking
superlative
most honking
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).