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honking

verb

Meaning

  1. To use a car horn.
  2. To make a loud, harsh sound like a car horn.
  3. To make the vocal sound of a goose.
  4. To vomit: regurgitate the contents of one's stomach.
  5. To have a bad smell.
  6. To squeeze playfully, usually a breast or nose.
  7. Emphatically or impressively big; really big.
  8. Used as an intensifier
  9. Very; tremendously.
  10. A sound that honks.
  11. Having a bad smell.

Etymology / origin

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Related words

toot(English)beep(English)claxon(English)blare(English)spew(English)throw up(English)regorge(English)regurgitate(English)

Descendant words

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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