honkingly
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honkingly (comparative more honkingly, superlative most honkingly)
- With a honking sound.
- 1981, J N Williamson, Premonition:
- At last Sinoway pulled himself together and blew his nose honkingly into an immense, white handkerchief.
- 2001, Richard Matheson, Camp Pleasant:
- At four-thirty, the swim period was honkingly announced.
- 2007, Jonathan Francis Brodsky, Prism:
- A few cars buzz around them honkingly before an off-duty taxi stops and lets them in for double the normal fare.
- (slang) Greatly, hugely, overwhelmingly.
- 2005, Jessica Mantaro, FrontPage 2003: the missing manual:
- If a browser window is larger than a layout table's fixed size, your viewers end up looking at a honkingly big white void.
- 2009, Jason Cochran, Pauline Frommer's Walt Disney World & Orlando:
- ...the Last Chance Fruit Stand cart, which sells not only fruit cups ($3) but also honkingly large turkey legs ($6.40).