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Whats your fave onomatopoeia? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

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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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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago

Fap, Haha

[–] danglybits27@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago

"Meow"

It's a perfect description of the sound and has a very similar spelling through a bunch of different languages

[–] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

Chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga CHOO CHOO

[–] SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"guru guru" in Japanese means to turn or spin round and round.

[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

In German, the sound that pigeons make.

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 0 points 9 months ago

Fizzle

[–] tunetardis@piefed.ca 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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".

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 0 points 9 months ago

Bam!

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 0 points 9 months ago

Boing

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago

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

[–] nore@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I didn't realise blinking made a noise

[–] nore@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago

I confused onomatopoeia with mimetic... (-.-')

[–] DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago

SBLOUNSKCHED!

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 0 points 9 months ago

I've always been partial to poit

Gotta love the old Mad magazine features!

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Scratching or the German equivalent Kratzen. It fits the activity and the resulting noises perfectly.

[–] sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 0 points 9 months ago

Ooh it does