单词 | honk |
释义 | honkn.1int. A. n.1 ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > [noun] > member of subfamily Anserinea (goose) > wild wild goosec1050 ridlaik1578 wawa1742 honka1804 a1804 J. Boucher in J. Hunter & J. Stevenson Boucher's Gloss. Archaic & Provinc. Words (1832) Introd. p. xlix/1 Wild geese..utter a cry resembling Cohonc... The animals themselves, by natural onomatopœia, were also called Honc [in Virginia and Maryland, in the late 18th cent.]. 2. a. The characteristic harsh sound made by a wild goose, or (also) a swan. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > [noun] > member of subfamily Anserinea (goose) > sound made by cacklingc1374 gagglingc1440 keak1600 cackle1674 canking1741 honk1813 1813 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. VII. 56 In both cases the van is led by an old gander, who every now and then pipes his well known honk. 1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 267 The faint honk or quack of their leader. 1937 Idaho: Guide in Word & Picture (Federal Writers' Project) i. vii. 158 The Canada [goose]..has become famous for its V-formation in flight and for its honk. 1988 S. Madge & H. Burn Wildfowl 133/1 Cape Barren goose... Males utter very loud and harsh trumpeting honks. 2011 Washington Post (Nexis) 29 Nov. c10 Tundra swans have a high-pitched honk, similar to a goose. b. A similar loud, harsh sound, esp. one made when laughing, blowing one's nose, etc. Also: a deep, bellowing sound made on a reed instrument (esp. a saxophone). ΚΠ 1869 P. T. Barnum Struggles & Triumphs xxvii. 413 The man has got a natural honk, I tell you; that is, he honks exactly like a wild goose. 1880 Harper's New Monthly Mag. Nov. 835/2 Instead of snoring in his sleep, he replaced it by a series of ‘honks’, under the infliction of which no peace or rest could be found. 1949 Billboard 9 Apr. 214/4 Another of those tenor sax solo waxings... Big beat and honks and squeaks are the characteristic touches present. 1980 R. Andrews Rosiebelle Lee Wildcat Tennessee (1988) 186 The man took from his right hip pocket his long white handkerchief, and honk! went one nostril, honk! went the other nostril. 1982 Z. Edgell Beka Lamb xii. 74 Aunt Tama was recovering herself with an effort, blowing her nose with loud honks. 2010 Times (Nexis) 13 Nov. (Review section) 1 At that he lets out one of his frequent, sudden and deafening honks of laughter. c. The harsh sound of the horn of a car or other motor vehicle. Cf. beep n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of horn > [noun] seekc1500 poopa1556 gibbet1590 honking1844 tra-ra1900 hoot1904 honk1905 honk-honk1908 klaxoning1922 beep-beep1929 parp1936 1905 Automobile 28 Sept. 364/3 The honk of the horn merely adds an unnecessary and, to many persons, unpleasant note to the din of the street. 1953 C. Beaton Diary in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xix. 279 Added to the hammer-like banging of the pipes, there were..catcalls in the street,..and honks and beeps. 1977 E. Figes Nelly's Version ii. ii. 176 David was unable to overtake immediately, and gave a couple of impatient honks on his horn. 2012 Weekend Courier (Perth, Austral.) (Nexis) 23 June 1 Between 5:50 and 6:30 p.m., the five protesters counted more than 100 honks, to signs that said ‘Honk for Democracy.’ B. int. Representing the characteristic harsh sound of a goose, or a noise resembling this. Cf. honk-honk int. ΚΠ 1839 Amer. Turf Reg. & Sporting Mag. Aug. 433 Hawnk! Honk! and forward to the Nor'ward, is the trumpet tone, What goose can lag, or feather flag, or break the goodly cone, Hawnk! onwards to the cool blue lakes, where lie our safe love bowers. 1882 H. Butterworth Zigzag Journeys in Classic Lands ii. 41 ‘Honk!’ said the gander, and the geese obeyed the mysterious command. 1930 Pittsburgh Courier 13 Sept. b9/3 ‘Honk!’ went our horn, and out front, moving at a snail's pace, could be seen two huge men, crowded onto an undersized seat of a dilapidated iron-wheeled wagon. 1972 Creem Nov. 76/2 I just hauled the damn thing [sc. a saxophone] up from the corner and started working out, Honk! Blat! Squeeee! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). honkn.2 slang (originally Australian, in later use also British). A powerful and unpleasant smell. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [noun] > fetid smells stenchc893 reekeOE weffea1300 stink1382 fise14.. smeek?c1425 fist1440 fetorc1450 stew1487 moisture1542 putor1565 pouant1602 funk1606 graveolence1623 hogo1654 whiff1668 fogo1794 stythe1823 malodour1825 pen and ink1859 body scent1875 pong1900 niffa1903 hum1906 taint1927 honk1953 bowf1985 stank1996 1953 S. J. Baker Austral. Speaks 106 Onkey, stinking, unsavoury, stale, and the closely-related term honk, a bad smell. 1996 Daily Tel. 1 Aug. 6/4 There was, allegedly, a smell: ‘I did not smell it myself,’ said Kew's spokesman Derek Lewis. ‘But I'm told there was quite a honk overnight.’ 2007 P. Greenwood Once aboard Cornish Lugger (2011) iii. 40 The chimney of the cabin fire was sending out a good whiff.., while a steady honk of stale fish and bilge was permeating up from below. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). honkv.1 1. intransitive. Of a wild goose or (occasionally) other bird: to make its characteristic harsh cry; to utter a honk or honks. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > [verb (intransitive)] > make sound (of goose) cacklec1230 gaggle1399 keak1545 gabble1712 honk1813 cank1879 honk-honk1896 1813 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. VII. 30 If disturbed in their breeding place, the old birds fly occasionally over the spot, sometimes honking like a goose. 1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 292 Their commodore honking all the while with a regular beat. 1922 Canad. Mag. Oct. 483/2 They..honk awhile, beat the water with their wings to raise themselves,..an' are gone. 1985 J. Raban Foreign Land (1986) viii. 138 Herring gulls honked and wheezed overhead. 2011 Korea Times (Nexis) 17 Oct. The alpha male strutted, honked, flapped his wings and fluffed out the feathers on his chest but none of the geese answered his call. 2. intransitive. Of a person: to make a sound imitating, resembling, or suggestive of the honk of a wild goose, esp. when blowing the nose, laughing, etc. Also transitive: to blow mucus from (the nose) with a honking sound. ΚΠ 1869 P. T. Barnum Struggles & Triumphs xxvii. 413 He honks exactly like a wild goose; when the flocks are flying over he goes out and honks. 1897 Recreation June 464/1 Sez I, ‘Tommy Dowdy there's geese.’ In a little while I sez, ‘Tommy Dowdy honk to 'em;’ an' Tommy he honked. 1912 Munsey's Mag. Apr. 135/2 Hopper began to honk again. 1945 H. Gibbs Blue Days & Fair 35 He took off his spectacles, honked his nose loudly on a linen handkerchief, sniffed twice, and went on. 1985 P. Martin Very Public Life II in J. McLeod Oxf. Bk. Canad. Polit. Anecd. (1988) 198 When I protested one day that I did not wish to play politics with foreign policy, John Diefenbaker honked with laughter. 2012 Bristol Evening Post (Nexis) 4 Dec. (Features section) 8 Why is it that men have to honk when they blow their noses? 3. a. intransitive. Of the driver of a car or other motor vehicle: to sound its horn. Also with the vehicle as subject. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of horn > [verb (intransitive)] poopc1390 hoot1883 honk1895 klaxon1924 parp1968 1895 F. Remington Pony Tracks 256 The irrepressible Dan begins to ‘honk’ on his horn. 1911 R. W. Chambers Common Law x. 312 Where now the lonely taxi honks. 1972 G. Lucas et al. Amer. Graffiti (film script) 21 (stage direct.) A car honks, John whirls, sees a girlfriend, grabs Carol by the neck and pushes her head down out of sight. 2010 T. Shapiro Mountain Justice 216 When I drive up to the house in Naoma I see a new sign facing the road: ‘Honk If You Love Mountains’, in enormous block letters. b. intransitive. With prepositional complement. Of a driver or vehicle: to proceed whilst sounding the horn; (more generally) to motor (rare). Also transitive: to make (one's way) in a vehicle whilst sounding the horn. ΚΠ 1907 Lawrence (Kansas) Daily World 3 Sept. 2/3 It crashed into the curbing and a woman was thrown out... The machine honked away before it was possible to learn her name. 1911 H. S. Harrison Queed i. 6 Now and then a chauffeur honked by. 1915 Literary Digest 4 Sept. 467/1 Nearly a dozen autos may be always seen ‘honking’ their way through Nome's busy thoroughfares. 1928 Observer 22 Jan. 10/7 ‘Sunstar’..is feeling fit again and proposes to honk off to Doncaster tonight. 1954 G. Smith Flaw in Crystal (1963) xi. 109 I stood bemused at the edge of Parliament Square, while the traffic roared and honked cheerfully by me. 2010 D. Laguna & M. S. Wren You have to live Hard to be Hard iii. 44 The sounds of cars motoring and honking along Marysville Boulevard began to distract my mind. c. transitive. To sound (the horn of a vehicle). Also: to force away or cause to move by sounding a horn. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of horn > [verb (transitive)] honk1908 pip1918 klaxon1924 parp1968 1908 Elkhart (Indiana) Truth 27 Aug. 5/6 Mrs. Hamilton states that she honked the horn a few times and that Ritter, noticing the auto..halted for a moment. 1916 G. A. England Pod, Bender & Co. xiii. 313 Slats just grazed a truck loaded with steel rails, then honked an old maid hastily back to the curb. 1958 Times 29 July 10/7 The driver honked his horn. ‘Bleep, bo-o-oop, parp.’ 1976 Field & Stream June 55/2 We were honked off the road by people who thought we had no right to be on it. 2006 M. Hirrill Ochoa 269 Jim Bob thought they were moving too slow, so he honked the horn. 4. intransitive. Of an instrument (esp. a reed instrument): to make a honking sound when played. Of a musician: to play a reed instrument (esp. a saxophone) forcefully, such that it produces a honking sound; also transitive. ΚΠ 1905 B. Tarkington Conquest of Canaan xiii. 207 The peace was broken by the screams of a ‘parlor organ’, which honked and wailed in pious agonies (the intention was hymnal). 1948 Billboard 17 July 110/5 Williams' baritone sax is featured, but not to advantage as he honks, shrieks, and makes assorted unmusical noises. 1987 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 25 Apr. b7/1 Kaz is first seen honking his sax on the subway. 1992 Sunday Mail (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 24 May The ‘master blaster’ tenor sax player—made famous for lying on his back honking his horn—is almost as renowned for his high-energy showmanship as he is for his incredible music talents. 2006 L. S. Carl Murder Hole (2009) xxxiv. 265 In the corner Billy's bagpipes honked and squealed. 5. transitive. To utter loudly or harshly. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (transitive)] remeOE shoutc1374 hallow?a1400 shout?a1513 roup1513 bemea1522 yawl1542 toot1582 gawl1592 yellow1594 hollo1597 vociferate1599 bawl1600 halloo1602 acclaim1659 foghorn1886 honk1906 belt1971 1906 ‘O. Henry’ Four Million 51 She would honk loudly the word ‘Clara’. 1978 G. Vidal Kalki v. 115 ‘A swell town,’ he honked, ‘where they treat you real good.’ 2003 W. Holden Azur like It xii. 193 ‘I'll ask as soon as I get on set tomorrow, OK?’ she honked. 6. intransitive and transitive. slang (originally and chiefly British). To vomit (something). Chiefly with up. ΚΠ 1967 Let. in E. Partridge Dict. Slang (1970) Suppl. 1201/1 Honk, to vomit. 1971 J. L. Hughes Tom Jones slept Here xiv. 108 Honking up Whitbread and crisps over cousin Henry wearing a new yellow trilby for the first time and the last. 1989 J. Turner in J. Linklater Red Hog of Colima 77 Sure enough he started honking up into the gutter. It sounded sore. 1991 M. Myers et al. Wayne's World (film script) (O.E.D. Archive) 12 If you need to honk, honk into this. 2008 Sunday Express (Nexis) 16 Mar. 15 I had been seasick for about eight hours because I am a bit rubbish like that. I was honking up bile and it was orange bile. Phrasal verbs With adverbs in specialized senses. to honk off colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). 1. intransitive. To speak out about something; to brag; to ‘sound off’. Cf. sense 5. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > boast [verb (intransitive)] yelpc888 kebc1315 glorify1340 to make avauntc1340 boast1377 brag1377 to shake boastc1380 glorya1382 to make (one's) boastc1385 crackc1470 avaunt1471 glaster1513 voust1513 to make (one's or a) vauntc1515 jet?1521 vaunt?1521 crowa1529 rail1530 devauntc1540 brave1549 vaunt1611 thrasonize1619 vapour1629 ostentate1670 goster1673 flourish1674 rodomontade1681 taper1683 gasconade1717 stump1721 rift1794 mang1819 snigger1823 gab1825 cackle1847 to talk horse1855 skite1857 to blow (also U.S. toot) one's own horn1859 to shoot off one's mouth1864 spreadeagle1866 swank1874 bum1877 to sound off1918 woof1934 to shoot a line1941 to honk off1952 to mouth off1958 blow- 1952 Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner 21 Dec. b5/2 It's not just an accident that all that football talent is there, which certainly makes a big liar out of some one who has been honking off about every third day. 2009 Contra Costa Times (Calif.) (Nexis) 25 Nov. All you're going to get is people who want to honk off about how they felt safe last week, last month or whatever. 2. transitive. To make (a person) angry or annoyed; to annoy, irritate. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > be annoyed or vexed by [verb (transitive)] > annoy or vex gremec893 dretchc900 awhenec1000 teenOE fretc1290 annoyc1300 atrayc1320 encumberc1330 diseasec1340 grindc1350 distemperc1386 offenda1387 arra1400 avexa1400 derea1400 miscomforta1400 angerc1400 engrievec1400 vex1418 molesta1425 entrouble?1435 destroublea1450 poina1450 rubc1450 to wring (a person) on the mailsc1450 disprofit1483 agrea1492 trouble1515 grig1553 mis-set?1553 nip?1553 grate1555 gripe1559 spitec1563 fike?1572 gall1573 corsie1574 corrosive1581 touch1581 disaccommodate1586 macerate1588 perplex1590 thorn1592 exulcerate1593 plague1595 incommode1598 affret1600 brier1601 to gall or tread on (one's) kibes1603 discommodate1606 incommodate1611 to grate on or upon1631 disincommodate1635 shog1636 ulcerate1647 incommodiate1650 to put (a person) out of his (her, etc.) way1653 discommodiate1654 discommode1657 ruffle1659 regrate1661 disoblige1668 torment1718 pesta1729 chagrin1734 pingle1740 bothera1745 potter1747 wherrit1762 to tweak the nose of1784 to play up1803 tout1808 rasp1810 outrage1818 worrit1818 werrit1825 buggerlug1850 taigle1865 get1867 to give a person the pip1881 to get across ——1888 nark1888 eat1893 to twist the tail1895 dudgeon1906 to tweak the tail of1909 sore1929 to put up1930 wouldn't it rip you!1941 sheg1943 to dick around1944 cheese1946 to pee off1946 to honk off1970 to fuck off1973 to tweak (a person's or thing's) tail1977 to tweak (a person's or thing's) nose1983 to wind up1984 to dick about1996 to-teen- 1970 Edwardsville (Illinois) Intelligencer 4 May 4/1 The Yale University president has honked off some people with his opinion of the nation's judicial system. 1996 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 30 June 2 Honking off your potential neighbors is not good business. 2007 M. Luoma Vatican Ambassador 82 Well, I've certainly honked her off! Hope my announcement is received better elsewhere. Derivatives honked off adj. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). angry, annoyed, irritated. ΚΠ 1962 Monmouth Oracle (Monmouth Coll., Illinois) 19 Oct. 3/1 General Bunn is really honked off at the shlubs who failed to clean up their floats after this past weekend's activities. 1979 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 13 Apr. Sponsors don't care about the infighting. If they build a program around a car driving in the 500, and then the car isn't even in the race, I would think they'd be throughly [sic] honked off. 2007 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 1 June iv. 5/6 His initial reaction shouldn't always be to lash out... Is he really that honked off? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). honkv.2 colloquial (originally Australian, in later use also British). intransitive. To give off a powerful and unpleasant smell; to stink. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > stink [verb (intransitive)] stinkc725 stenchc950 to-stinka1382 smella1400 savour?1440 stew1563 reek1609 funk1694 pen-and-ink1892 whiff1899 niff1900 hum1902 pong1906 honk1959 1959 S. J. Baker Drum 117 Honk, to stink. 1974 Austral. Women's Weekly 24 Apr. 63/3 ‘Pooh!’ exclaimed my sister. ‘What's the foul smell?’ ‘You absolutely honk,’ sniffed one brother. 1994 R. Rankin Greatest Show off Earth ii. 27 It bloody is you, boy... You honk of fish. 2002 More! 3 Apr. 97/1 Smelly feet can kill the mood. If they honk like a mature cheddar, I can think of nothing else. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1int.a1804n.21953v.11813v.21959 |
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