different between squonk vs quonk

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /skw??k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic; compare squawk, honk.

Verb

squonk (third-person singular simple present squonks, present participle squonking, simple past and past participle squonked)

1. (intransitive) To produce a raucous noise like a squawk or honk.

Noun

squonk (plural squonks)

1. A raucous noise like a squawk or honk.

Etymology 2

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Noun

squonk (plural squonks)

1. (mythology) A mythical creature, said to inhabit Pennsylvanian forests, where it hides from view for being ashamed of its own appearance, and to dissolve into a pool of tears if captured.

Further reading

• squonk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• quonks

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," […]