quonk

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/ˈkwɒŋk/

noun

Unwanted noise picked up by a microphone in a broadcasting studio.

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Meanings

nounquonk (countable and uncountable, plural quonks)

plural quonks

  1. uncountableUnwanted noise picked up by a microphone in a broadcasting studio.
  2. uncountableAudience chatter that disturbs the performer.
  3. countableThe honking sound of certain birds.
verbquonk (third-person singular simple present quonks, present participle quonking, simple past and past participle quonked)

present singular third person quonks · participle present quonking · participle past quonked · past quonked

  1. intransitiveTo produce unwanted noise.

    The microphone quonked, caused the speakers to emit an electronic belch which looped and reverberated […]

    2004, Alastair Scott, Stuffed Lives
  2. intransitiveTo honk.

    […] no goose was heard there, but lower down we heard some "quonking," […]

    1999, Ronald Rompkey, Eliot Curwen, Labrador Odyssey
    1 more example

    As we pushed among the reeds in the swamp, the grebes could be heard quonking in the buckbrush or beyond it.

    1902, Cooper Ornithological Society, The Condor

Origin

Imitative.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with quonk

honkbonkbronczonkconkclonkgonkklonkmont blancMont-Blancpétanquephonksquonktwonk
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Cite this entry
APA

quonk. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quonk

MLA

“quonk.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quonk. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “quonk,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quonk.

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