honking
adj.— «Mrs.Phillip J. King decided she’d take the candlestick off the mantel, the big ugly honking thing I’d already given to Deputy Dale.» —by T.R. Pearson Glad News of the Natural World Apr. 18, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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