honkers

plural of honker, slang
as in noses
the part of the face bearing the nostrils and nasal cavity with a honker like that, you must need a hankie the size of a bedsheet

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Noun
  • In one scene, a pair of revellers dance naked just outside the fence of the Calvary Cemetery, thumbing their noses at the reaper while the Manhattan skyline towers in the distance.
    Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 4 July 2026
  • What made the difference was an angle here, a line there, small dimensional differences in eyes, noses, mouths.
    John Madson, Outdoor Life, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • With their snouts, the pigs would feel each beat of my heart the way a human would feel a silver dollar that had been flipped in the air then caught in an open palm, flipped and caught, coming up heads or tails, whichever side had been called when the coin was at its apogee.
    Will Mackin, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
  • Many hot weather dogs have longer snouts.
    Madeline Gunderson, USA Today, 29 May 2026
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“Honkers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/honkers. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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