Other animals |
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cats |
| caterwaul | to make a harsh cry (like a cat in heat) |
| hiss | to make a sharp sibilant sound, produced by geese and snakes, or a cat (when angry / scared) |
| meow | cat vocalization |
| mew | cat vocalization |
| mrow | cat vocalization |
| purr / prr | a sound produced by cats, when sociable |
| rowr | sound produced occasionally by Garfield the cat (cartoon by Jim Davis), when angry or trying to intimidate |
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insects |
| bzzz, buzz | sound of a flying insect |
| chirr | the short vibrant or trilled sound, characteristic of an insect (as a grasshopper or cicada) |
| hum | 1. to make a low inarticulate murmuring sound, 2. a verb for the sound that bees make (eg. "the dog barks, the bee hums"), also: buzz |
| clitter | to make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures, as of male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers |
| murmur | to murmur, verb describing the sound of a swarm of bees or flies (as in "murmuring of innumerable bees", from the poem "Come Down, O Maid" by Alfred Lord Tennyson) |
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dogs(see also dogs in other languages) |
| barking | arf, woof, ruff, bow-wow, yap, yelp, howl, bark, bawl, bay |
| panting | ah uh ah uh, also: hu hu hu hu, hah-hah-hah, heh-heh-heh. (these were among the replies to a question posted on Yahoo answers) |
| snarl | to make an angry sound while showing teeth |
| freh, freh, freh | sound of an animal (particularly a dog/wolf/coyote) shaking water off its fur ("Borreguita and the Coyote: A Tale from Ayutla, Mexico", by Verna Aardema) |
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various other animals |
| bear | growl |
| bull | muuhhhrrr, rrrruuuurrrr, moo, hrrooonnh, huuuooohar. These are suggestions in response to the question of how to write the sound of a bull, on wiki-answers. If you need a verb: bulls "bellow" or "low" (not directly imitative) |
| cow | moo (verb: to low) |
| dolphin | verb: to click |
| donkey | hee haw, eee-aaaah (verb: to bray) |
| elephant | baraag (verb: to trumpet) |
| ferret | verb: to dook, clucking or chuckling sound made by ferrets when excited or happy. link |
| frog | ribbit, brekekekex, koax, koax (ancient greek) (verb: to croak) |
| goose: see under birds | |
| hippopotamus | huuuuuuuuuugh |
| horse | neigh, whinny, snort; clip clop (walking), klopp klopp klopp (walking - from "Mr. Brown can moo, can you?" by Dr. Seuss), clippity-clop, thubalup (galloping) |
| lion | roar |
| monkey/ape | oo oo oo, ook, hoo hoo hoo hoo. (verbs: to gibber, to ick, to oo (ick and oo: Misoso: Once Upon a Time Tales from Africa, by Verna Aardema)) |
| murloc (creatures in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft) | mrrrrgggggllll, mrclughluhlua, maagluuuuughhhhhh, mrglmrglmrglmrgl, aurrrrrrrrruuuuggguglugglugglugluguaa (according to players) |
| owl: see under birds | |
| pig | grunt, snort, oink, whee (verb: to snort, to grunt) |
| rodents | skreek, squeak, shriek |
| sheep, goat | baa, naa (verb: to bleat) |
| snake | hiss |
| squeal | to utter a short shrill cry or noise |
| wolf/coyote | aroo, owooooah (owooooah: "Borreguita and the Coyote: A Tale from Ayutla, Mexico", by Verna Aardema)(verb: to howl - prolonged, doleful cry) |
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| words not tied to particular animals |
| bawl | to cry out loudly and unrestrainedly. From baulare (Medieval Latin) or baula (Old Norse), imitative origin. |
| screech | to utter a loud sharp cry |
| squeal | to utter a short shrill cry or noise |
| yar | growling sound |
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| imitative names of animal species |
| cricket | name of chirping insect, grasshopper |
| drone | name for male honeybee, probably of imitative origin |
| gecko |  name of lizard species, comes from Malay word "gekoq", imitiative of its call. (link) |
| katydid | insect family also known as bush-cricket, long-horned grasshopper, named for the sound produced by the male (north american species) |
| peeper | any of various tree frogs that peep shrilly, especially the spring peeper |
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