The sound a family car horn makes

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My family say 'poop' (as in "He pooped his horn at me"). It has come to my attention that we seem to alone in this. Most people seem to use 'beep', which sounds too electronic to me. Maybe my mum and dad are stuck on cars of their childhood, which probably did have real squeezy horns.

My girlfriend says 'bib'.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 11 December 2003 09:28 (twenty-one years ago)

parp

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 11 December 2003 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

bwaaaa

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 11 December 2003 09:45 (twenty-one years ago)

toot

― robster (robster), Thursday, 11 December 2003 09:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Honk, surely?

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 11 December 2003 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)

GET OUT OF THE FUCKING WAY!!!!

― robster (robster), Thursday, 11 December 2003 10:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah yes - I forgot 'toot'. Maybe that's even bigger than beep.

'Honk' is interesting and also overlooked. But can it be used intransitively? Do you just say "She honked at me" without 'the horn'? Maybe you do. Maybe I do. Maybe I should go back to bed.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 11 December 2003 10:19 (twenty-one years ago)

When I was little we got a new car and my dad decided the noise the horn made wasn't macho / loud / authoritative enough so he replaced it with the horn from a fork lift truck (cos he worked for a fork lift truck company so had access to such things). It then made a really loud, ridiculous & embarrassing noise and as my dad does not have the longest of fuses we would hear the noise quite a lot.

― Emma, Thursday, 11 December 2003 10:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I wuv Emma's dad.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 11 December 2003 10:34 (twenty-one years ago)

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