different between quook vs quonk

English

Verb

quook

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of quake
   • 1591, Edmund Spenser, Mother Hubberd's Tale

     Freely up those royal spoils he took, Yet at the lion's skin he inly quook.

Middle English

Verb

quook

1. past of quaken

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," […]