makes the loud sharp sound of a horn or goose; the third-person singular form of 'honk.'
From Middle English, likely imitative in origin—meant to capture the sound made by geese. Later applied to mechanical horns that made similar sounds.
The word 'honk' is an onomatopoeia created specifically to imitate the sound of a goose, and centuries later humans used it for car horns because they wanted to describe that sharp blaring noise the same way.
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