quonkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Imitative.

発音

• IPA: /ˈkwɒŋk/
• 韻: -ɒŋk

名詞

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.

動詞

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

1. (intransitive) To produce unwanted noise.
   • 2004, Alastair Scott, Stuffed Lives:

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

2. (intransitive) To honk.
   • 1902, Cooper Ornithological Society, The Condor:

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

   • 1999, Ronald Rompkey, Eliot Curwen, Labrador Odyssey:

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