What does quonk mean?
Quonk means (uncountable) Unwanted noise picked up by a microphone in a broadcasting studio..
Quonk
/ˈkwɒŋk/ · noun
Meaning
(uncountable) Unwanted noise picked up by a microphone in a broadcasting studio..
Definitions by Sense
- (uncountable) Unwanted noise picked up by a microphone in a broadcasting studio.
- (uncountable) Audience chatter that disturbs the performer.
- (countable) The honking sound of certain birds.
- (intransitive) To produce unwanted noise.
- (intransitive) To honk.
Example Sentences
The microphone quonked, caused the speakers to emit an electronic belch which looped and reverberated […]
As we pushed among the reeds in the swamp, the grebes could be heard quonking in the buckbrush or beyond it.
[…] no goose was heard there, but lower down we heard some "quonking," […]
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Word Forms
- quonks
- quonking
- quonked
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The microphone quonked, caused the speakers to emit an electronic belch which looped and reverberated […]
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