Onomatopoeia #2

Based on the hints, name these words (or short phrases) that sound like what they describe.

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First submitted	July 13, 2013
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Hint	Word
Get the phone!	Ring
Frog's noise	Ribbit
A horse saying no	Neigh
Eating hot soup	Slurp
A clock on the wall	Tick Tock
The sound of car keys or Santa's sleigh	Jingle
A car coming to a sudden halt	Screech
Sound of a Casio watch striking the hour	Beep
Pig's noise	Oink
A noisy sleeper	Snore
Getting struck by a laser	Zap
A baby crying	Wah
Clearing one's throat	Ahem
To command someone to be quiet, with index finger on the lips	Shush

Hint	Word
Female chicken's noise	Cluck
How a rooster says "good morning"	Cock-a-doodle-doo
Whip's noise	Crack
Rapid inhalation through the nose	Snort
Strike one's knuckles on the table	Rap
Cash register's sound	Ker-ching
Nothing but net!	Swish
The sound of a honky-tonk guitar	Twang
A camera shutter closing	Click
Cow's sound	Moo
Pouring water from a jug	Glug
A fire in the fireplace	Crackle
An old staircase as someone tries to quietly climb it	Creak

Level 74

Jul 22, 2013

tinkle should also work for sleigh bells and car keys.

+13

Level 71

Sep 10, 2013

tinkle means something else where im from

Level 67

Aug 13, 2019

Seriously...I need to go now..

+26

Level 57

Sep 10, 2013

Can you please accept "sniff" for "snort"?

Level 70

Nov 18, 2016

Sniff was my first thought.

+16

Level 71

Mar 23, 2017

I think it should be 'Sniff' for inhalation through the nose, snort is more exhalation through the nose as in the definition below:

noun

an explosive sound made by the sudden forcing of breath through one's nose, used to express indignation, derision, or incredulity.

"he gave a snort of disgust"

verb

make a sudden explosive sound through one's nose, especially to express indignation or derision.

"she snorted with laughter"

Level 67

Aug 13, 2019

+1 Yea snorting is always exhaling (forcefully), whether it is with laughter or as a sign of discontent. The only time it refers to inhaling is when it is about drugs.

+11

Level 78

Nov 21, 2017

Another vote for sniff

Level 44

Nov 6, 2021

Agreed. Sniff is the inhalation. Snort is like, a more gutteral, choppy noise.

Level 60

Feb 1, 2022

Have to agree with everyone else here that "sniff" should be accepted.

I'm also inclined to suggest that "gurgle" should be accepted for "glug", but since nobody else in the comments has said that, it's possible I'm just the only one daft enough to come up with "gurgle"...

Level 59

Feb 1, 2022

I started with gurgle before I thought of glug.

I don't think it's hard to make the leap from one to the other, just wanted you to know you aren't alone.

Level 79

Feb 1, 2022

Yes sniff please!!

Level 75

Feb 13, 2022

Yep, +1 for sniff instead, or at least in addition. Snort is a noise made by EXhaling.

Level 28

Sep 10, 2013

snort (gasp),ahem (cough) and rap (pop) were a bit unusual

Level 67

Aug 13, 2019

I tried ahum (and cough) for ahem, it is the only way I know it. But I guess that is not the common way in english.

Level 44

Sep 10, 2013

Lazers don't make a sound when they're used, that hint could work for a taser, though.

Level 86

Jan 31, 2019

Someone's never read a comic book before.

+18

Level 89

Aug 9, 2019

Then pew pew should definitely be accepted for lasers.

Level 44

Nov 6, 2021

I tried "pew" too many times.

Level 77

Feb 1, 2022

Pew is the sound of shooting lasers, not getting hit by lasers.

Level 91

Sep 10, 2013

Haven't you ever seen Deliverance? "Squeal like a pig!" That one should also work.

Level 91

Sep 10, 2013

Also, "knock on wood" is almost exclusively done on tables and desks, in my experience. Knock should work - it's a word that sounds like what it describes.

Level 34

Sep 10, 2013

What about "pewpew" for the laser hint?

Level 77

Feb 1, 2022

Pew pew is the sound of shooting lasers!

Level 50

Sep 10, 2013

All I could think about for guitar was Kabong! from Quickdraw McGraw/El Kabong.

They just don't make cartoons like those classic Hannah-Barbara anymore.

Level 39

Sep 10, 2013

Rats! I tried whoosh and swoosh for nothing but net -- swish didn't even occur to me!

Level 44

Nov 6, 2021

Yes, also woosh and swoosh.

Level 75

Feb 2, 2022

I also tried swoosh and whoosh then gave up.

Level 38

Sep 10, 2013

I tried "Grunt" for Pig's noise.

Level 75

Feb 2, 2022

It took me forever to get that one because I misread it as "pig's nose". Grunt was the only thing I could think of.

Level 77

Oct 17, 2014

Funny how onomatopoetic words are so different in different languages. The sounds are nowhere close to each other.

Level 70

Nov 18, 2016

Sizzle should work for laser.

Level 84

Mar 28, 2017

Isn't a "honky tonk guitar" a steel guitar? Or is honky tonk guitar now a thing?

Level 67

Aug 13, 2019

I wondered that too, anyway I tried all sorts of ploink ploing pling plong

Level 68

May 21, 2017

100% YAY! I love onomatopaeia. Just saying it is fun.

Level 72

Oct 8, 2017

That 'Nothing but net' clue threw me totally, someone want to explain it, am i just being dumb?

Level 86

Jan 31, 2019

It's basketball. "Swish" is the sound the ball makes when it goes through the net without touching the hoop.

Level 68

Feb 1, 2022

Swish rail is also used for hanging curtains, though not usually nets. That's how I made a connection.

Level 72

Apr 12, 2020

so many answers that work besides ahem here

Level 83

Nov 15, 2020

Tbh I don't understand how onomatopoeic words work. I can understand it for some of the animal sounds, but words like "jingle"? I don't hear it.

Level 68

Feb 1, 2022

Yes, I think a lot of these words are just names given to noises.

Level 59

Jan 13, 2021

I think you should accept 'ouch' for getting struck by a laser.

Level 60

Jun 26, 2021

And drinking hot soup

Level 59

Jan 13, 2021

Just kidding

Level 64

Jun 13, 2021

You might like to add the Welsh word for a microwave - popty-ping.

Level 65

Nov 3, 2021

Ummmm... Why is slurp related to hot soup? Eating why does it have to be hot? Why does it have to be soup? I would probably sip or go OUCH, so I don't get the clue.

Level 82

Feb 1, 2022

yeah I also got caught up on the "hot" part of the clue, which threw me off and cost me getting the answer I think. You can slurp soup of any temperature.

Level 75

Feb 2, 2022

Not just soup - why else would they name the icy drink a Slurpee?

Level 82

Feb 3, 2022

Thanks, ander. That's pretty much a slam-dunk there. I've never seen a Slurpee sold scalding hot. Though I have seen some that became that way, left in a hot car mid-Summer.

Level 77

Feb 1, 2022

Because you just put the whole spoon in your mouth if it's not too hot. You slurp because the entire contents of the spoon would burn you.

Level 82

Feb 1, 2022

I think that would be more like blow and trepidatiously sip... I visualize slurping as the sort of thing that would burn your tongue and roof of your mouth if it's that hot. And it's on an onomatopoeia quiz so... it also has to be an action that makes a noise. If you are slurping down scalding hot soup so fast that it's making a lot of noise, you'll definitely burn yourself.

Level 72

Feb 1, 2022

Too many of these involve too much guess work and there's not enough time. By the fourth one I was guessing multiple sounds.

A lot of other comments are already complaining about "Getting struck by a laser." The given answer is not one of my first seven guesses, and if I were to work backward from the answer, the clue would not by one of the first seven things I'd think of.

But it's exactly the same scenario with "A camera shutter closing." There's even a very universal onomatopoeia used for this sound in the vernacular lexicon ("snap"), and it's not accepted.

Level 77

Feb 1, 2022

What about sniff and whiff for rapid inhalation through the nose? I physically did both of these based on the clue, but I did not snort.

Level 64

Feb 1, 2022

I've only ever heard "cha-ching," not "ker-ching." Is that a regional thing?

Level 75

Feb 2, 2022

I always thought a cash register sound was cha-ching.

Level 76

Feb 8, 2022

I third this comments.

Level 65

Feb 2, 2022

I'm not so sure about the rapid inhalation being a snort, I think inhalation is a sniff and a short is rapid exhalation. Apart from that, it's a pretty interesting quiz.

Level 82

Feb 2, 2022

I feel like sniff should definitely work for the "rapid inhalation" clue

Level 75

Feb 2, 2022

One more vote here for sniff.

Level 73

Feb 4, 2022

I missed out on rap, and tried multiple variations of knock and knock-knock.

Level 44

Feb 4, 2022

jingle and snore are not onomatopoeias

Level 67

May 6, 2022

Why Casio watch in particular? Surely they're not the only ones to go beep and they're not exclusively digital they do analogue. It threw me- thought there was some kind of clue in the word

Level 73

Mar 17, 2023

Such a different type of quiz! I had fun and I scored 22/27. Thanks for the quiz!

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