Quonk
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈkwɒŋk/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Quonk is a noun meaning (uncountable) Unwanted noise picked up by a microphone in a broadcasting studio.
Meaning
(uncountable) Unwanted noise picked up by a microphone in a broadcasting studio.
More Meanings
- (uncountable) Audience chatter that disturbs the performer.
- (countable) The honking sound of certain birds.
- (intransitive) To produce unwanted noise.
- (intransitive) To honk.
Example Sentences
[…] no goose was heard there, but lower down we heard some "quonking," […]
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.
Word Forms
- quonks
- quonking
- quonked
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include squonk, queak, queek, noise, howlround, quauk.
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