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tnwilz
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Post your favorite Onomatopoeia words.

Onomatopoeia: naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (as buzz, hiss).

Onomatopoeia: use of words whose sound suggests the sense.

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Onomatopoeia, a prayer of self-referential pity muttered at the porcelain pew after drinking a fifth of Jamaican dark rum.
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Meredith
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Susurration -- a murmur or whispering sound.

[This message has been edited by Meredith (edited July 26, 2009).]

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Natej11
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Aieee! The yell you make when you fall off a cliff.
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Nicole
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I once heard "kerblooey" as an alternative to "kaboom". It's funny, sounds like a candy word. No idea if it exists...

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Whoosh!
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Bamf!
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Robert Nowall
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Waukegan.
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Natej11
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Boom! also rumble and brrr.
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bam. short, sweet and simple.
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Robert Nowall
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Blimp.
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drake the thall
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isnt that a type of flying contraption?
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mewling
crack
clatter

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Robert Nowall
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It's said to be the sound one's finger makes when whacked against one...
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One of my sons speaks in onomatopoeias all the time ("it went td-td-td-choohh!") I thought he'd grow out of it but he hasn't yet. I think he must be a very auditory learner. He also picks up background music in movies like you wouldn't believe. Stuff you and I would just tune out.

Here are a few of my favs:

babble
bawl
clap
grumble
grunt
gurgle
murmur
mumble
sizzle
thud
whip

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One my children discovered and have used against me: borborygmus.
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Robert Nowall
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Barroom.
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Kathleen Dalton Woodbury
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It has occurred to me that the word "chutzpah" which means insolence (among other things), could qualify for this topic because if you pronounce it with a strong gutteral ch (as in German or Yiddish), it sounds like clearing the throat and then spitting.

Or would that make it qualify as a pun?

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Robert Nowall
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Egg*

*(see Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, "The 2000-Year Old Man," for the explanation.)

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