What is your favorite onomatopoeia?

[Bertha Venation]

I am partial to murmur and crackle.

[bif]

1. Burp

Comes to mind

[Bake]

2. I like "twang."

I just do.

:P

Bake

[Runcible Spoon]

3. Don't know if it's my favorite, but "slink" just came to my mind

[Gormy Cuss]

4. Meow.

[KamaAina]

12. In Chinese, the word for cat is "mao"

no, not like him; it's in a different tone.

In 'olelo Hawai'i, one word for "cat" is 'oau.

[geardaddy]

14. And "Mao" (second tone) is hair or fur.

:D

[montanto]

25. miu in Egyptian

seems like many other languages get it right. If you ask the cat what he wants to be called he will tell you.

[TroglodyteScholar]

30. My Siamese is named Mao Mao

He talks a lot.

[KamaAina]

31. We used to ask our Kwan Yin, who had Siamese and Burmese ancestry, things like

"Who was the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party?" Mao!

"What was the name of the guerrilla movement that was active in Kenya during the 1950s?" Mau Mau!

Precocious little girl, she was...

[TroglodyteScholar]

32. Hahah

They're pretty knowledgeable of you ask the right questions....

[dawgmom]

5. Schwing!

Actually, they don't make that sound....but wouldn't it be cool if they did?

[frogmarch]

6. Slurp is my favorite. I also like crunch and

slop.

[MineralMan]

7. Piss, Buzz, and Hiss

Those are some of my faves.

[MrCoffee]

8. I don't know what "frumpy" is, but onomatopoetically, sounds right.

[KitchenWitch]

9. I like gurgle, if it counts.

[redqueen]

10. sigh

i can't decide

[Fire Walk With Me]

11. Spash.

The sound of a stone through a large window.

[geardaddy]

13. Tinkle

n/t

[geardaddy]

15. Snort

Oink
Bah
Tweet

[SKKY]

16. Buzz, I suppose. Murmur is cool too.

[surrealAmerican]

17. Sizzle.

[Taverner]

18. I like a Thai Language one..."Meow" for Cat

Totally fits

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

19. Those that appear in "Fairy Oddparents." -nt

[Bucky]

20. tintinnabulation (which so musi-cally wails from the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells...)

(...bells, bells, bells, from the wailing and the flailing of the bells)

[bbernardini]

21. Here's a selection from Todd Rundgren's "Onomatopoeia":

(From the "Hermit of Mink Hollow" album)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaVrswuk_Fc

Onomatopoeia every time I see ya
My senses tell me hubba
And I just can't disagree
I get a feeling in my heart that I can't describe
It's sort of lub, dub, lub, dub
A sound in my head that I can't describe
It's sort of zoom, zip, hiccup, drip
Ding, dong, crunch, crack, bark, meow, whinnie, quack

Onomatopoeia in proximity ya
Rearrange my brain in a strange cacophony
I get a feeling somewhere that I can't describe
It's sort of uh, uh, uh, uh
A sound in my head that I can't describe
It's sort of whack, whir, wheeze, whine
Sputter, splat, squirt, scrape
Clink, clank, clunk, clatter
Crash, bang, beep, buzz
Ring, rip, roar, retch
Twang, toot, tinkle, thud
Pop, plop, plunk, pow
Snort, snuk, sniff, smack
Screech, splash, squish, squeek
Jingle, rattle, squeel, boing
Honk, hoot, hack, belch

[kimmerspixelated]

22. kerplunk!

[Phentex]

23. Whoosh!

:woohoo:

[montanto]

24. I don't have one, but

onomatopoeia is my favorite word.

[Greyskye]

26. My 10 y.o. son was yelling "Onomatopoeia!" down the zip lines a couple weeks ago.

We were in Mexico, and the guides didn't have a clue about what he was screaming as he flew from tree to tree. :rofl:

It's now one of the guides favorite words - we wrote it down for him so he wouldn't forget it. :D

So for right now, I'd have to say that "zip" is my favorite onomatopoeia. :hi:

[Doc_Technical]

27. I was told by someone who should know that 40 years ago

the Montagnards in Vietnam's central highlands would call
their weapons, "Bong", which is the sound that it makes.
The story is that they thought the noise killed people
because they couldn't grasp the concept that something
like a bullet could travel faster than they could see.

[TroglodyteScholar]

28. Yoink!

(the sound when you snatch something from under someone's nose)

[Xipe Totec]

29. Fart! n/t

[sarge43]

33. Slither. n/t