2. Noun. A sound that honks. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Honking
1. honk [v] - See also: honk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Honking
Literary usage of Honking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sport and Travel in the Far East by Joseph Clark Grew (1910)
"CHAPTER IX BLACK BEAR honking IN THE VALLEY OF KASHMIR [LTHOUGH it had not been
my intention to look for bear around Bandipur, it was here that an event ..."
2. Lake Maxinkuckee: A Physical and Biological Survey by Barton Warren Evermann, Howard Walton Clark (1920)
"At 5:40 pm they all rose, honking, and flew south in a long east-and-west-line.
On April 6 (in the afternoon), a flock of seven was seen flying low eastward ..."
3. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1897)
"One night in the beginning of winter, before the pond froze over, about nine
o'clock, I was startled by the loud honking of a goose, and, stepping to the ..."
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