The difference between Beak and Honker

When used as nouns, beak means a rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming and for eating food, whereas honker means one who honks.


Beak is also verb with the meaning: strike with the beak.

check bellow for the other definitions of Beak and Honker

  1. Beak as a noun (botany):

    Anatomical uses. A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming and for eating food. A similar structure forming the jaws of an octopus, turtle, etc. The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera. The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve. The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal. Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.

  2. Beak as a noun (architecture):

    Figurative uses. Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land. A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off. A toe clip. That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee. A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, used as a ram to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Carew"

  3. Beak as a noun (slang):

    Colloquial uses. The human nose, especially one that is large and pointed. A justice of the peace, magistrate, headmaster or other person of authority.

  1. Beak as a verb (transitive):

    Strike with the beak.

  2. Beak as a verb (transitive):

    Seize with the beak.

  3. Beak as a verb (intransitive, Northern Ireland):

    To play truant.

  1. Honker as a noun:

    One who honks.

  2. Honker as a noun (informal):

    A large nose.

  3. Honker as a noun (informal):

    A wild goose.

  4. Honker as a noun (slang, mostly, in the plural):

    A woman's breast.

  5. Honker as a noun (slang):

    Anything impressively large; a whopper.

    Examples:

    "I caught a real honker of a fish."

  6. Honker as a noun (slang):

    A loud burst of flatulence.

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