Word of the day: parp

The word of the day is parp:

Imitative. Compare slightly earlier parp v.

 

Representing a honking sound, esp. that of a horn. (OED)

"Where Banville writes, 'The café.  In the café.  In the café we,' or 'Oh, agog, agog!,' Black writes, 'He crossed the street, dodging a green double-decker bus that parped its horn at him.'"

 - Joanna Kavenna, "Pseudonymously Yours: The strange case of Benjamin Black", 11 & 18 July 2011 The New Yorker