Honkerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• 韻: -ɒŋkə(ɹ)

名詞

honker (複数形 honkers)

1. One who honks.
   • 2015, Eric Gober, Men In Uniform

     Elmo flat-out ignored me, and Big Bird was busy flipping off honkers in the traffic jam they'd caused.

2. (informal) A large nose.
3. (informal) A wild goose.
4. (slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman's breast.
5. (slang) Anything impressively large; a whopper.

   I caught a real honker of a fish.

6. (slang) A loud burst of flatulence.
   • 2016, Steve Vernon, Flash Virus Omnibus: The First Five Episodes (page 39)

     I would have given a million dollars to fart a good loud juicy honker, right then and there […]

7. (slang) The telephone.
   • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things

     He supposed Pangborn was around someplace, and pretty soon old Bill Fullerton would get him on the honker and tell him who was back in town. Then Pangborn would find him and ask him what he thought he was doing here.

   • 2001, Paul M. Levitt, Chin Music: A Novel of the Jazz Age (page 283)

     I kidded him about the length of the call, and he said that he'd also been on the honker with A.R. […]

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:nose

Further reading

• honker at OneLook Dictionary Search