Whats your fave onomatopoeia?
Whats your fave onomatopoeia?
Word that stands in for a sound effect or noise?
Dont care what language its in
Plop!
Falling sound or champagne cork flying off. Very plosive
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Chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga CHOO CHOO
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Fap, Haha
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This one's Japanese (which has a lot of onomatopoeia btw), but ki-ki-ki is the sound of a violin being played badly. I put my poor family through a lot of that when I was taking lessons as a kid. I could hear my aunts in the background saying "mata ki-ki-ki yatteru." That's basically Japanese for "there he goes sawing away again".
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Tintinabulation!
It's not as direct an onomatopoeia as your example, but it so perfectly encapsulates the experience of hearing the bells, bells, bells, that it counts imo
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I've always been partial to poit
Gotta love the old Mad magazine features!
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ピカピカ (Pika-pika) is a japanese onomatopoeia for blinking, I like it because it's similar to the Portuguese blinking onomatopoeia: Pisca-pisca.
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I didn't realise blinking made a noise
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I confused onomatopoeia with mimetic... (-.-')
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"guru guru" in Japanese means to turn or spin round and round.
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In German, the sound that pigeons make.
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Like the Windmill guru
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Fizzle
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Scratching or the German equivalent Kratzen. It fits the activity and the resulting noises perfectly.
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Ooh it does
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"Meow"
It's a perfect description of the sound and has a very similar spelling through a bunch of different languages