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Onomatopoeia

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Onomatopoeia (occasionally spelled onomatopœia) is a word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describing, suggesting its source object, such as “click,” “buzz,” or animal noises such as “oink”, “quack”, or “meow”. The word is a synthesis of the Greek words όνομα (onoma, = “name”) and ποιέω (poieō, = “I make” or “I do”) thus it essentially means “name creation”.

Author Peter Leslie’s compiled a long onomatopoeia list which gets your brain moving. I’ve added a few. Do the same if you so choose.

abra-kadabra
achoo
ahem
ahem
argh
aww (shucks)
babble
bah
bah
bam
bang
banged
banging
bash
bashed
bashing
bawl
bawled
bawling
beep
beep-beep beep-beep
(alarm clock)
beeped
beeping
belch
belched
belching
blab
blabbed
blabbing
blag
blah blah blah
blare
blared
blaring
blast
blippity-blop-blop-ver-slotch
blurt
blurted
blurting
boing
boink
bong
bonk
bonked
bonking
boo
boo-hoo
boom
boom chick chick (shotgun)
bow-wow
bring-bring (bicycle bell)
bubble
bump
bumped
bumping
burp
buzz
buzzed
buzzing
carambah
chatter
chirp
chit-chat
choo-choo
chug
clang
clanged
clanging
clank
clanked
clanking
clap
clapped
clapping
clash
clatter
clattered
clattering
click
clink
clop
clout
cough
crackle
crash
creaking
crisp
crumple
crunch
crunching
cuckoo
din
ding
doink
dong
drip
drum
drumming
echo
eek
eew
fizz
flash
flick
flicker
fling
flip
flop
flush
flutter
gallop
gargle
gasp
giggle
gloop
gong
grind
groan
growl
grrr
grumble
grunt
gulp
gurgle
gurgled
gurgling
hack
hah
haha
hiccup
hiss
hmm
hmph
hohoho
hubbub
huh
hum
humming
hurrah
hush
icky
itch
jangle
jingle
ker blang
kerplunk
klank
knock
laughing
meow
miew
mmm (yummy)
moan
moo
mumble
munch
murmur
neigh
oink
ooze
ouch
ow
patter
peeyew
peow peow peow (pistol)
phew
pi-kink
ping
ping-pong
pitter
pitter-patter
plok
plop
plunk
pong
poof
pop
popped
popping
pow
quack
ratchet
rattle
regurgitate
ring-ring ring-ring (phone)
roar
roared
roaring
rrrinngg
rumble
rustle
rustled
rustling
screech
screech
screeched
screeching
sheesh
shines
shuffle
shush
sizzle
sizzled
sizzling
slam
slap
slash
slop
slosh
slurp
smack
snap
snick
sniff
snip
snort
spark
splash
squelch
squish
static
stomp
sweep
swish
swoosh
throb
throbbing
thud
thump
thumped
thumpin
thunk
thwap (skin against skin)
tic-toc
tinkle
tiptoe
toink
tong
tsk-tsk
twang
tweet
twitter
ugh
vroom-vroom
waahhh
whack
whallop
wham
whee
whimper
whine
whiney
whip
whipped
whir
whisper
whispered
whispering
whisk
whizz
whoa
whoop
whooped
whoosh
wisp
woof
yap
yelped
yikes
yoo-hoo
zap
zigzag
zip
zoom
zzzz…(or z’s)

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