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boom
zip
kablam

(post stranger or ones from other languages too)

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

sizzlfitz

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

wash
rat-a-ta-ta

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.game-revolution.com/games/gamecube/action/batman_dark_tomorrow_pow.jpg

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

whooosh

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

murmur
ouch
oof
toll
moan
groan
beep

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

is "fart" one?

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

wan wan (Japanese for barking)
woef (Dutch for dog, refers to bark)

― nathalie (nathalie), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

plop

― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Bang!

― Third Shelf Up, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Hack. Belch. Jizz. (poss. not the last one, unless your bell-end has a reed)

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

sussuration

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

crunch

― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

glitch

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Ohh... I used to think onomatopoeiac thoughts lying in bed when I was sorely insomiac. Anyway, I've got a quite a few of them:

a paperback novel falling down the stairs and landing spine-up on the floor:

tkrmf knkunkunccc uh-fnkbnkshk tk tk prfff

big-chested dog’s single bark
hwrouf!!

the horn warming up at the beginning of the cure’s ‘the 13th’
shoua-daugh-daugh-dah-dah-dawawawa, mgf!

time telling summer crickets
lr rrt?

banging an espresso mug on my desk, and the antecedant overtones
prss (nnnng!)

a thunderclap 7/14
rkss koum!

rain on the shutters 7/14
...rkrksrsksrsksrskr...

pressing and depressing the left button on my microsoft optical mouse
bg-c

my puppy sleeping, snoring herself awake, and falling back to sleep 11/3
whiie...snkcmpf mf ghf ... whiee…

the streetlamp outside my window / motel 6 in casper, wyoming
...nngnngnn…

D. laughing 3/8
pwba ha!

― The Second Drummer Drowned (Atila the Honeybun), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

cap america wank pic to thread!

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Cuckoo

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

pfffft

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Don Martin to thread.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

A dog:
Hau hau!
Vuh vuh!

A cat:
Miau!

A cow:
Ammmuuuu!

A horse:
Ihahaa!

A chicken:
Kot kot!

A pig:
Röh röh!

A little bird:
Tsirp tsirp tsirp!

A duck:
Kvaak kvaak!

A sheep:
Bäääää!

A burp:
Röyh!

A fart:
Pröööt!

A yawn:
Hohhoi!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Huff Huff (sez the Czech dog)

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Booyah?

― Spinktron 2000 (El Spinktor), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Wait a minute, you imbeclines... isn't onomatopoeia based around words that actually exist? Kablam and Pffffttt are not in my Merriam Webster, but 'buzz' is.

― andy, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

shaaddddaaaap!

― My Huckleberry Friend (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

imbeclines?

― The Second Drummer Drowned (Atila the Honeybun), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Tap tap tap.

― maypang (maypang), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Don Martin to thread.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

fizz

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Japanese onomatopoeia is great:

gero gero ( frog noise )

more here: http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/anime/www/onomatopoeia.html

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

clack (BTW, 'clack' used to be used where we now say 'applause'.)
huff
ping
ding dong
boom
roar (Ever heard a crowd roar?)

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

A dog: Hau hau!
Hmm, this, onomatopoetically speaking, sounds nigh familiar - though it's believed to be more like "auh, auh!" in my neck of the woods ;)

And as for cats - "näu-näu"

A pig: Röh röh!
Sure thing, Tuomas, our pigs are twins. As now proved by science.

...And this, according to the firm belief of one of my bestest friends, is 'the sound of an oar brushing against the bald head of a just-surfaced diver':

"tõdõ-rõnts!"

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"Hymen"?

― andy, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

kadonkadonk

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Don Martin to thread.

I already said that darnit!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

wah wah pedal.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Pish

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Thursday, 26 February 2004 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Squelch.

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 26 February 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

flange

― x Jeremy (Atila the Honeybun), Friday, 21 May 2004 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Prince.

Sounds so prissy and purple, dunnit? 'Prince.'

― I Wish You Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 21 May 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

quack

― A Nairn (moretap), Friday, 21 May 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Check out Todd Rundgren's track titled "Onomatopoeia" from Hermit of Mink Hollow, I thinks. Thud.

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 21 May 2004 05:36 (twenty-one years ago)

patapata (Maori, "drip/drop")
lots of names for birds here in Maori are lovely. Like ruru (but it's hard to explain that "r" as it's different from english "r")

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Friday, 21 May 2004 10:19 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...

Splort! Revive.

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 14 February 2005 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

roffle

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Monday, 14 February 2005 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Flip Flop

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 14 February 2005 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

boh boh!

as in "the glock goes BOH BOH!"

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

holy crap, look at me posting here a year ago!

― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

dude... I have so many fucking pages of onomatopoeia. I kept a journal of onamatopoeia for a year or two. What a weird hobby that was.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

BORT! I wish I could find the img I had of that. Or even recall if it was Futurama or the Simpsons dammit.

Jer I love your onomatapeaeic list upthread - its wonderfully imaginative :)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 04:11 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

puppy eating the rubber bone thingie, bone thingie falling on the floor
kdjckl, kdjckl, kdjckl -dngdFmbl!

hot coffee slurped slowly
wh-wh-wh-whgp-whgb-wghblghbl-wghp-hw-hwss...

― remy bean, Friday, 23 February 2007 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

via Zippy the Pinhead

Blaupunkt: the sound of one stroke in a ping-pong match

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 23 February 2007 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

rotary lawn sprinkler:

dc-dk-dc-dk-dc-dk-vsssssssssp

oscillating lawn sprinkler

SSSSHw-ssshw

― remy bean, Friday, 23 February 2007 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

"slurp" is onomatopoeoia whereas "wh-wh-wh-whgp-whgb-wghblghbl-wghp-hw-hwss..."
is not.

― Maria :D, Friday, 23 February 2007 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

hiccup

― Maria :D, Friday, 23 February 2007 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

peep
beep

― Maria :D, Friday, 23 February 2007 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

your vowels are just over-articulated, maria. i have never made a 'slurp' in my life.

― remy bean, Friday, 23 February 2007 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

(though i admit i'm innately mistrustful of onomatopoeia that is rendered in white bread english-language spelling. e.g. 'burp' is not particularly evocative but 'bgarhp') is.

― remy bean, Friday, 23 February 2007 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

but bgarhp isn't a word, so it's not onomatopoeia

― Lingbert, Friday, 23 February 2007 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

bgarhp isn't a word according to whom – j. edger hoover? who gives a pedantic fig if onomatopoeia is purely additive and inventive, not pathologized like a pinned-up moth in the OED?

― remy bean, Friday, 23 February 2007 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

shove your phizz in the tuzzy-muzzies, occasionally.

― remy bean, Friday, 23 February 2007 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

burp is a pinned-up, white bread moth
bgarhp is real

― Lingbert, Friday, 23 February 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

Bellen bellen bellen! BEllen bellen bellen!

That's what my dog says...auf Deutsch!

― Abbott, Friday, 23 February 2007 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

Brek-kek-kek-kek, koax, koax

Frogs, according to Aristophanes.

― ledge, Sunday, 25 February 2007 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

twelve years pass...

I can't get over the Mohawk word for goose (kahonk). I love Indigenous onomatopoeia, like ôhô (oohoo) for owl in Cree.
— âpihtawikosisân (@apihtawikosisan) August 3, 2019

― j., Sunday, 4 August 2019 18:26 (six years ago)

I have an indelible childhood memory of a segment on "Shalom Sesame" (special crossover miniseries between American and Israeli Sesame Street, made for American Jewish kids), in which Itzhak Pearlman taught the Hebrew word for bottle - Bakbuk - by pouring one out and listening to the water go "bakbuk bakbuk bakbuk."

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Sunday, 4 August 2019 19:15 (six years ago)

a familiar nocturnal call emanating from the trees hereabouts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morepork

― no lime tangier, Monday, 5 August 2019 08:22 (six years ago)

blap

― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Monday, 5 August 2019 22:40 (six years ago)

fap

― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Monday, 5 August 2019 22:41 (six years ago)

blapto!

βλάπτω Root ΒΛΑΒ, v. βλάβη
I.to disable, hinder, stop Hom.:—βλ. πόδας to disable the feet, to lame them, Od.:—Pass., ὄζωι ἔνι βλαφθέντε [the horses] caught in a branch, Il.; βλάβεν ἅρματα were stopped, id=Il.; Διόθεν βλαφθέντα βέλεμνα stopped, made frustrate by Zeus, id=Il.
2.c. gen. to hinder from, βλάπτουσι κελεύθου Od.:—Pass., βλαβέντα λοισθίων δρόμων arrested in its last course, Aesch.
II.of the mind, to distract, delude, deceive, mislead, of the Gods, Hom.; βλαφθείς, Lat. mente captus, Il.
III.after Hom. to damage, hurt, mar, opp. to wilful wrong (ἀδικεῖν), Aesch., etc.

― j., Monday, 5 August 2019 22:49 (six years ago)

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