“Our father invented orbisculate in college to describe when a citrus fruit squirts in your eye, then proceeded to use it so often when we were growing up that we were shocked to discover it wasn’t in the dictionary…”
Jonathan and Hilary Krieger, about their father Neil Krieger
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1 archaic : given to melancholy
2 : marked by bad temper, malevolence, or spite
Merriam Webster
Onomatopoeia is the process of creating a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes. Such a word itself is also called an onomatopoeia. Common onomatopoeias include animal noises such as oink, meow, roar, and chirp.
HUMAN VOCAL SOUNDS
Achoo
Chomp
Cough
Hiccup
Hum
SOUNDS MADE BY DEVICES OR OBJECTS
Bang
Boom
Beep
Ching
Clatter
Clink
Crackle
Crash
Creak
Ding dong
Fizz
Flutter
Honk
Kaboom
Knock
Oom-pah
Ping
Plop
Pop
Rumble
Sizzle
Slosh
Snap
Splat
Splash
Squish
Swish
Tap
Thump
Tick
Tick tock
Toot
Vroom
Whirr
Whoosh
Zap
ANIMAL AND BIRD NOISES
Bark
Bleat
Buzz
Chirp
Chirp
Growl
Hiss
Hoot
Howl
Meow
Moo
Purr
Quack
Ribbit
Roar
Screech
Tweet
Woof
