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单词 honk
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honkn.1int.

Brit. /hɒŋk/, U.S. /hɔŋk/, /hɑŋk/
Forms: 1800s hawnk, 1800s honc, 1800s– honk.
Origin: An imitative or expressive formation.
Etymology: Imitative of the sound made by a wild goose. Compare honk v.1
A. n.1
1. U.S. A wild goose. Obsolete. rare.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of horn > [noun]
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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.
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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. 41Honk!’ said the gander, and the geese obeyed the mysterious command.
1930 Pittsburgh Courier 13 Sept. b9/3Honk!’ 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

Brit. /hɒŋk/, U.S. /hɔŋk/, /hɑŋk/, Australian English /hɔŋk/
Origin: Of uncertain origin.
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps compare ponk at pong n.2 Forms; perhaps associated by speakers with honk n.1 (unless a specific sense development of that word). Compare slightly later honk v.2The form onkey in quot. 1953 apparently shows a related adjective in -y suffix1.
slang (originally Australian, in later use also British).
A powerful and unpleasant smell.
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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

Brit. /hɒŋk/, U.S. /hɔŋk/, /hɑŋk/
Origin: An imitative or expressive formation.
Etymology: Imitative. Compare honk n.1 With sense 6 compare earlier honkers adj.
1. intransitive. Of a wild goose or (occasionally) other bird: to make its characteristic harsh cry; to utter a honk or honks.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (transitive)]
remeOE
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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.
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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.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > boast [verb (intransitive)]
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to make avauntc1340
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brag1377
to shake boastc1380
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to make (one's) boastc1385
crackc1470
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to make (one's or a) vauntc1515
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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.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > be annoyed or vexed by [verb (transitive)] > annoy or vex
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to gall or tread on (one's) kibes1603
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to grate on or upon1631
disincommodate1635
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incommodiate1650
to put (a person) out of his (her, etc.) way1653
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torment1718
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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.
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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

Brit. /hɒŋk/, U.S. /hɔŋk/, /hɑŋk/, Australian English /hɔŋk/
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: honk n.2
Etymology: Apparently < honk n.2
colloquial (originally Australian, in later use also British).
intransitive. To give off a powerful and unpleasant smell; to stink.
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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).
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