different between quone vs quonk

Middle English

quone

Imitative.

quonk (uncountable)

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

(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 […]
(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," […]

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