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quonk

/ˈkwɒŋk/

quonk noun: unwanted noise picked up by a microphone in a broadcasting studio.

Noun

quonk (countable and uncountable, plural quonks)

  1. (uncountable) Unwanted noise picked up by a microphone in a broadcasting studio.
  2. (uncountable) Audience chatter that disturbs the performer.
  3. (countable) The honking sound of certain birds.

Verb

quonk (third-person singular simple present quonks, present participle quonking, simple past and past participle quonked)

  1. (intransitive) To produce unwanted noise.
    • The microphone quonked, caused the speakers to emit an electronic belch which looped and reverberated […]2004, Alastair Scott, Stuffed Lives
  2. (intransitive) To honk.
    • 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
    • […] no goose was heard there, but lower down we heard some "quonking," […]1999, Ronald Rompkey, Eliot Curwen, Labrador Odyssey

quonk meaning in Bengali

quonk in Bengali

অনাকাঙ্ক্ষিত শব্দ উৎপন্ন করা, পাখির মতো শব্দ করা

Forms of quonk

Noun
pluralquonks
Verb
third-person singular presentquonks
present participlequonking
past participlequonked
pastquonked

Origin of quonk

Imitative.

Words that rhyme with quonk

5 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about quonk

What does quonk mean?
Quonk means unwanted noise picked up by a microphone in a broadcasting studio.
What is quonk in Bengali?
Quonk in Bengali is অনাকাঙ্ক্ষিত শব্দ উৎপন্ন করা, পাখির মতো শব্দ করা. See Quonk meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is quonk?
Quonk can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce quonk?
Quonk is pronounced /ˈkwɒŋk/.
What is the plural of quonk?
The plural of quonk is quonks.

Words near quonk in the dictionary

  1. quondamship
  2. quondong
  3. quondongs
  4. quoniam
  5. quoniams
  6. quonk
  7. quonked
  8. quonking
  9. quonks
  10. Quons
  11. quonset

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quonk (page history and authors); quonk (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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