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Quink vs Quonk - What's the difference?

quink | quonk |

As nouns the difference between quink and quonk

is that quink is a hypothetical fundamental particle; a preon while quonk is unwanted noise picked up by a microphone in a broadcasting studio.

As a verb quonk is

to produce unwanted noise.

quink

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (physics) A hypothetical fundamental particle; a preon.
  • * 1987 , D. G. Garan, Our sciences ruled by human prejudice
    • For instance, quarks now are supposed to have their own elemental constituents: prequarks, maons, quinks , or rishons; so far there are ten kinds of them.

    quonk

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Unwanted noise picked up by a microphone in a broadcasting studio.
  • Audience chatter which disturbs the performer.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To produce unwanted noise.
  • * 2004 , Alastair Scott, Stuffed Lives
    • The microphone quonked , caused the speakers to emit an electronic belch which looped and reverberated
  • 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