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To ask you what the most successful onomatopeia is

99 replies

twiney · 20/12/2017 14:37

I vote for swish

OP posts:
JanetsPlain · 20/12/2017 15:13

Gulp

JanetsPlain · 20/12/2017 15:14

Ping

Imsorrynow · 20/12/2017 15:14

ker-ching!

MTBMummy · 20/12/2017 15:14

Squelch - just love it!

TheWildRumpyPumpus · 20/12/2017 15:15

Hush

JanetsPlain · 20/12/2017 15:17

Chuchoter - French for whisper

Preen

Dictate - think it's the dick aspect ...

lidoshuffle · 20/12/2017 15:17

Plangent

mrsBeverleyGoldberg · 20/12/2017 15:19

Plop

WhatALoadOfBaubles · 20/12/2017 15:20

Crackle
Barf
Splodge
Dollop
Boing

OrangeCarpet · 20/12/2017 15:21

Wobble

JanetsPlain · 20/12/2017 15:21

Slither

Unevenbeard · 20/12/2017 15:25

Pop

JanetsPlain · 20/12/2017 15:25

Flop

zaalitje · 20/12/2017 15:26

Squish

Squelch

JanetsPlain · 20/12/2017 15:29

Moist

Paperchains1986 · 20/12/2017 15:32

Clink, everytime

redexpat · 20/12/2017 15:33

In danish there are 2 words for fart:
Prut (proot) for a proper fart
Fis (feece) for air discreetly escaping between the cheeks.

Zaphodsotherhead · 20/12/2017 15:36

Clank.

Zaphodsotherhead · 20/12/2017 15:37

And some of these aren't onomatopoeiaic...

BalloonSlayer · 20/12/2017 15:40

Phwoar

Flamingoingmad · 20/12/2017 15:42

sizzle

Glamorousglitter · 20/12/2017 15:44

Lollop - it was in one of my child s books, the lazy rabbit lalloped along

Glamorousglitter · 20/12/2017 15:44

Lolloped

iklboo · 20/12/2017 15:45

Slosh

QuinionsRainbow · 20/12/2017 15:46

Don't know whether it is strictly onomatapaea, but i have always liked:

"dim drums throbbing in the hills half heard"

From GK Chesterton's Lepanto.