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honking

honking is the present participle and gerund of honk.

honking is the alternative spelling of honkin'.

Adjective

honking (comparative more honking, superlative most honking)

  1. (slang) Having a bad smell.
  2. (slang) Terrible.

Meaning of honk

Verb

honk (third-person singular simple present honks, present participle honking, simple past and past participle honked)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To use a car horn.
    • They stood and observed how long it took for the other cars to honk.
  2. (intransitive) To make a loud, harsh sound like a car horn.
  3. (intransitive) To make the vocal sound of a goose.
  4. (intransitive, slang) To vomit.
    • WAYNE: Phil, what are you doing here? You're partied out, man. Again.
      GARTH: What if he honks in the car?1992, Wayne's World (film)
  5. (Australia, UK, slang) To have a bad smell.
    Synonyms:
    stink, pong
  6. (informal) To squeeze playfully, usually a breast or nose.
    • She honked my titties.

See all 10 meanings of honk

Meaning of honkin'

Adjective

honkin' (comparative more honkin', superlative most honkin')

  1. (US, slang) Emphatically or impressively big; really big.
  2. (US, slang) Used as an intensifier.
    • But that hasn't stopped U2 from assuming the mantle as the biggest, honkin'-est rock band in the world and running with it.1997 March 5, Will Hermes, “The Importance of Being Earnest: U2 goes forward and backward with Pop”, in Minneapolis City Pages

See all 3 meanings of honkin'

Noun

honking (plural honkings)

  1. A sound that honks.
    • We listened to the distant honkings of the geese on the lake.

Forms of honking

Noun
pluralhonkings
Adjective
comparativemore honking
superlativemost honking

Words formed from honking

Phrases with honking

Questions about honking

What does honking mean?
Honking means a sound that honks.
What is honking the present participle and gerund of?
Honking is the present participle and gerund of honk.
What part of speech is honking?
Honking can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of honking?
The plural of honking is honkings.

Words near honking in the dictionary

  1. honkie
  2. honkieness
  3. honkies
  4. honkin'
  5. honkiness
  6. honking
  7. honking it on
  8. honking off
  9. honkingly
  10. honkings
  11. honkitude

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Adapted from Wiktionary: honking (page history and authors); honk (page history and authors); honkin' (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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