Whats your fave onomatopoeia?
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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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“Meow”
It’s a perfect description of the sound and has a very similar spelling through a bunch of different languages
Fap, Haha
Chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga chugga CHOO CHOO
“guru guru” in Japanese means to turn or spin round and round.
Like the Windmill guru
In German, the sound that pigeons make.
Fizzle
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”.
Bam!
Boing
I didn’t realise blinking made a noise
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
SBLOUNSKCHED!
I’ve always been partial to poit
Gotta love the old Mad magazine features!
Scratching or the German equivalent Kratzen. It fits the activity and the resulting noises perfectly.
Ooh it does