different between quink vs quonk

English

Etymology

Blend of quin- +? quark, suggesting a fifth-level building-block of matter, as if quark were derived from Latin quartus (“fourth”).

Noun

quink (plural quinks)

1. (physics) A hypothetical fundamental particle; a preon.
   • 1987, D. G. Garan, Our sciences ruled by human prejudice

     For instance, quarks now are supposed to have their own elemental constituents: prequarks, maons, quinks, or rishons; so far there are ten kinds of them.

Anagrams

• Kinqu

English

Etymology

Imitative.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kw??k/

Noun

quonk (uncountable)

1. Unwanted noise picked up by a microphone in a broadcasting studio.
2. Audience chatter that disturbs the performer.

Verb

quonk (third-person singular simple present quonks, present participle quonking, simple past and past participle quonked)

1. (intransitive) To produce unwanted noise.
   • 2004, Alastair Scott, Stuffed Lives

     The microphone quonked, caused the speakers to emit an electronic belch which looped and reverberated […]

2. (intransitive) To honk.
   • 1902, Cooper Ornithological Society, The Condor

     As we pushed among the reeds in the swamp, the grebes could be heard quonking in the buckbrush or beyond it.

   • 1999, Ronald Rompkey, Eliot Curwen, Labrador Odyssey

     […] no goose was heard there, but lower down we heard some "quonking," […]