quonk/ˈkwɒŋk/EtymologyImitative.nounUnwanted noise picked up by a microphone in a broadcasting studio.Audience chatter that disturbs the performer.The honking sound of certain birds.verbTo produce unwanted noise.“The microphone quonked, caused the speakers to emit an electronic belch which looped and reverberated […]”To honk.“As we pushed among the reeds in the swamp, the grebes could be heard quonking in the buckbrush or beyond it.”