honkingly

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adverb

With a honking sound.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

adverbhonkingly (comparative more honkingly, superlative most honkingly)

comparative more honkingly · superlative most honkingly

  1. With a honking sound.

    At four-thirty, the swim period was honkingly announced.

    2001, Richard Matheson, Camp Pleasant
    2 more examples

    At last Sinoway pulled himself together and blew his nose honkingly into an immense, white handkerchief.

    1981, J N Williamson, Premonition

    A few cars buzz around them honkingly before an off-duty taxi stops and lets them in for double the normal fare.

    2007, Jonathan Francis Brodsky, Prism
  2. slangGreatly, hugely, overwhelmingly.

    ...the Last Chance Fruit Stand cart, which sells not only fruit cups ($3) but also honkingly large turkey legs ($6.40).

    2009, Jason Cochran, Pauline Frommer's Walt Disney World & Orlando
    1 more example

    If a browser window is larger than a layout table's fixed size, your viewers end up looking at a honkingly big white void.

    2005, Jessica Mantaro, FrontPage 2003: the missing manual

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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