Written Sound
Onomatopoeia Dictionary
Words that sound like the thing they mean: Imitative words. From the Greek "onoma" (name) and "poiein" (to make)
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aaugh

Exclaimation of dismay, commonly used, and originaly created by the Peanuts gang by Charles Schulz. Used frequently by Charlie Brown in the following situations: Losing a Baseball game, Having the football pulled away by Lucy, In an embarrassing situation. Also used by other members of the peanuts gang and can be used as a roaring sound to scare someone. 1) Linus: I told her about how you're madly in love with her, Charlie Brown: Aaugh!! 2) Snoopy: It's not the things that go 'bump' in the night that scare me. It's the things that go 'AAUGH!'. Urban dictionary

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argh

Sound uttered by person choking. Also: awk, gasp, gak

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argh

exclamation expressing pain. there is a webpage dedicated to the many different spellings of aargh on the web. The top five most common spellings is argh, aargh, aaargh, arrgh, arrrgh.

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awk

Sound uttered by a person choking. Also gak, argh, gasp

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blam

explosion. Blam is also the title of a Roy Lichtenstein painting. Find more explosions.

explosion

bratatat

sound of machine gun. (Bratatat! is a Roy Lichtenstein painting)

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eeeyouch

interjection expressing pain ("Garfield", Jim Davis)

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gak

Sound uttered by a person choking. Also: argh, awk, gasp

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groan

1. to utter a loud deep sound of grief or pain, 2. the sound of funeral bells (in the poem "The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe, 3. sound of drums (in the poem "Lepanto" by G. K. Chesterton: "...For he heard drums groaning and he heard guns jar ..."

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moan

1. long low inarticulate murmur, 2. (less common) word describing the sound of doves (as in "The moan of doves in immemorial elms" in the poem "Come Down, O Maid" by Alfred Lord Tennyson), 3. (less common) the sound of wind (in the poem "the night wind", by Eugene Field: "... For the wind will moan in its ruefullest tone:

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ouch

interjection expressing pain or displeasure

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ow

a typical exclamation expressing pain

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screech

1. a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror, 2. the high pitched sound the tires of a car make when it turns at high speed

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takka takka

sound of a machine gun (title of a Roy Lichtenstein painting)

weapon

thung

sound of a blow to a metal object (features in a Roy Lichtenstein painting

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tzing

the sound of a bullet hitting the ground (features in Roy Lichtenstein painting "Live Ammo (Tzing!)")

weapon

uggh

exclamation expressing pain, frustration or annoyance

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varoom

sound of a fast driving car or an explosion (Also the title of a Roy Lichtenstein painting. Find more explosions.

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viip

Sound of a moving object (Also the title of a Roy Lichtenstein painting

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voomp

sound of explosive impact (weapon) (features in the Roy Lichtenstein painting "O.K., Hot Shot"). Find more explosions. Find more weapon sounds.

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whaam

sound of explosive impact (Roy Lichtenstein painting). Find more explosions. Find more weapon/a> sounds.

explosion

yawp

1. to utter a sharp cry; yelp. 2. to talk loudly, raucously, or coarsely.

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yeow

exclamation expressing pain

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yowl

to cry loudly with pain, caterwaul, howl

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yowt

interjection expressing pain

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