Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to honcho
Participle: honchoed
Gerund: honchoing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | honcho |
| you | honcho |
| he;she;it | honchos |
| we | honcho |
| you | honcho |
| they | honcho |
Perfect
| I | have honchoed |
| you | have honchoed |
| he;she;it | has honchoed |
| we | have honchoed |
| you | have honchoed |
| they | have honchoed |
Past
| I | honchoed |
| you | honchoed |
| he;she;it | honchoed |
| we | honchoed |
| you | honchoed |
| they | honchoed |
Pluperfect
| I | had honchoed |
| you | had honchoed |
| he;she;it | had honchoed |
| we | had honchoed |
| you | had honchoed |
| they | had honchoed |
Future
| I | will honcho |
| you | will honcho |
| he;she;it | will honcho |
| we | will honcho |
| you | will honcho |
| they | will honcho |
Future Perfect
| I | will have honchoed |
| you | will have honchoed |
| he;she;it | will have honchoed |
| we | will have honchoed |
| you | will have honchoed |
| they | will have honchoed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | honcho |
| you | honcho |
| he;she;it | honcho |
| we | honcho |
| you | honcho |
| they | honcho |
Perfect
| I | have honchoed |
| you | have honchoed |
| he;she;it | have honchoed |
| we | have honchoed |
| you | have honchoed |
| they | have honchoed |
Imperfect
| I | honchoed |
| you | honchoed |
| he;she;it | honchoed |
| we | honchoed |
| you | honchoed |
| they | honchoed |
Pluperfect
| I | had honchoed |
| you | had honchoed |
| he;she;it | had honchoed |
| we | had honchoed |
| you | had honchoed |
| they | had honchoed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would honcho |
| you | would honcho |
| he;she;it | would honcho |
| we | would honcho |
| you | would honcho |
| they | would honcho |
Perfect
| I | would have honchoed |
| you | would have honchoed |
| he;she;it | would have honchoed |
| we | would have honchoed |
| you | would have honchoed |
| they | would have honchoed |
Imperative
| you | honcho |
| we | Let's honcho |
| you | honcho |
Verbs conjugated like 'honcho'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'honcho'
conch,
hanch,
hench,
hotch,
hunch,
anchor,
bench,
bongo,
botch,
bouche,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Japanese 班(はん)長(ちょう) (hanchō, “squad leader”), from 19th c. Mandarin 班長 /班长 (bānzhǎng, “team leader”). Probably entered English during World War II: many apocryphal stories describe American soldiers hearing Japanese prisoners-of-war refer to their lieutenants as hanchō.
Sample Sentences
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I had never honchoed that many people so even something as simple as ordering them to knead dough or fondant became an important decision. [2010, Buddy Valastro, Cake Boss, Simon and Schuster, published 2020, →ISBN, page 142:]
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The task of choosing the clips that comprised the allotted 10 minutes in the bake-off was left to the supervising sound editor, as it was he or she who honchoed the preparation of the soundtrack for the rerecording mixing stage in the first place. [2012, David Lewis Yewdall, Practical Art of Motion Picture Sound, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:]