It's beeped the horn, not 'bibbed'

[dominossmeeza]

IANBU

@Mamette

It’s bipped actually.

This^

Bip for a short one, beep for a long one. Bib sets my teeth on edge

@Hazelmazel

Bibbing is definitely acceptable otherwise what about the third king on a scooter? (We three kings of orient are, one in a taxi, one in a car. One on a scooter, bibbing his hooter, following yonder star...) it's a different sound to a beep.

Um, we always sang 'blowing his hooter' sorry to disappoint.

Don't people say 'bib bib' if they are imitating a vehicle and trying to get people to move, rather than 'bip bip' ?

Mind you the 2 metre rule has largely put paid to this for the moment.

Bleeped.

It’s Poop Poop

Never heard of bibbed or bipped and papped a horn?? Pap to me means rubbish ie load of pap!
Toot, beep are what I use.

Well either is fine.

The official term is “sounded the horn” but no one says that!

The three kings was 'tooting his hooter' I thought?

We sang (in about 1963):

We three kings of Liverpool are,
John in a taxi Paul in a car,
George on a scooter beeping his hooter,
Following Ringo Starr.

toot

I say "bib" (Hertfordshire)
My husband says "parp" (Reading)

Its pipped

Ah, the daily All Dialects Bar Mine Are Wrong thread. Never change MN, never change.

It's beep.

It's bibbed when you're driving a little car, honk when you're driving a big car or lorry.

I must be really immature and bored this thread is really making me giggle!

@DeeTractor

Pamp!

Made my day - had to keep saying it and laughing till I had to run to the toilet!

"Just give it a wee pamp!"
"He pure PAMPED me!"
"PAMP IT!"

We're a peep and pump household but now I'm ALWAYS saying PAMP

@Wtfdidwedo

@Hazelmazel
Bibbing is definitely acceptable otherwise what about the third king on a scooter? (We three kings of orient are, one in a taxi, one in a car. One on a scooter, bibbing his hooter, following yonder star...) it's a different sound to a beep
Um, we always sang 'blowing his hooter'sorry to disappoint

I've always known it as bibbing his hooter, sorry to disappoint you

Guess it's another of those regional things.

@DeeTractor

Am I the first to say "pamped"...?

I say pamped, occasionally, sometimes beeped

YA ALL BVVVVVVU it’s sounded the klaxon ... so there

@dominossmeeza YANBU that bibbed is an abomination

We've always said 'bibbed'.
"What a dickhead, bib him".
"That dickhead bibbed us, bib him back".

If you say "bibbed" do you also say, "it's a doggy dog world" and "to all intensive purposes"?
No, because I have an English degree, I am a writer and I know those phrases are wrong.
However I do say bibbed (although I would say "I bibbed him" rather than "I bibbed the horn") because I grew up in Essex where it is a commonplace dialect word. In the same way that I call an alley a gant and the end of the bread a nubbin and say "on the huh" to mean wonky.

papped where i live .