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honk
English
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /h??k/
- (General American) IPA(key): /h??k/, /h??k/
- Rhymes: -??k
Verb
honk (third-person singular simple present honks, present participle honking, simple past and past participle honked)
- (transitive, intransitive) To use a car horn.
- (intransitive) To make a loud, harsh sound like a car horn.
- (intransitive) To make the vocal sound of a goose.
- (slang) To vomit: regurgitate the contents of one's stomach.
- (slang) To have a bad smell.
- (informal) To squeeze playfully, usually a breast or nose.
Derived terms
- honker
- honking
Translations
Noun
honk (countable and uncountable, plural honks)
- The sound produced by a typical car horn.
- The cry of a goose.
- (informal) A bad smell.
Translations
Interjection
honk
- Imitation of car horn, used, for example, to clear a path for oneself.
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
honk (plural honks)
- Clipping of honky.
Anagrams
- Kohn, khon
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch honc, likely through Old Dutch from Proto-Germanic *hank-, *hunk-. Only has cognates in the Frisian languages and possibly in the Old High German placename Hancwin. Since cognates outside of Germanic are lacking, the word is probably of substrate origin. Possibly related to haak (“hook”) and hoek (“corner”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???k/
- Hyphenation: honk
- Rhymes: -??k
Noun
honk n (plural honken, diminutive honkje n)
- (somewhat rare) home, place where one belongs, shelter
- (games) base (safe zone, e.g. in baseball and similar sports)
Synonyms
- (home): thuis, heem
Derived terms
- honkbal
- honkvast
- jeugdhonk
- krachthonk
References
honk From the web:
- what honks
- what honk means
- what honks without a horn
- what honkers and hoots
- honker meaning
- what honk in tagalog
- what honk sound
- honk what does it mean
slippy
English
Etymology
From slip +? -y. Compare Old English slipi? (“slippy, slimy, viscid”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sl?pi/
- Rhymes: -?pi
Adjective
slippy (comparative slippier, superlative slippiest)
- (slightly informal) Slippery.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Chapter 13
- It was darker now and there were stones and bits of wood on the strand and slippy seaweed.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Chapter 13
- (dialect, dated) Spry, nimble.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 5
- Well, come on then, let's look slippy.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 5
Derived terms
- slippy map
Anagrams
- Lippys
slippy From the web:
- what slippy means
- slippy what does it mean
- what does slippy mean in slang
- what born slippy about
- sloppy joes
- what is slippy map
- slippery elm
- what is slippy toad
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