Sweet terms: "eep", "eek", "arf" (and the rest I can't remember)

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Is there such thing as a dictionary for sounds made by characters in comics? I've not read too many comics, although I think I'm aware of their influence on the idioms of certain posters. Although I love the sounds of the various cartoon words I see used here on this board, and more often than not understand them in the context of what is being said, I can't retain them easily, or I find that when it comes to using the ones I do remember, I lack confidence - never sure if I've used them correctly. Alas, lack of confidence hasn't so far stopped me from using such words, and I fear I've turned into somewhat of a mumpsimus, using them consistently in the same but incorrect way. It would help people like me to have a definitive table of comic-words to refer to... could we use this thread?

If they don't derive from comics, forgive me -- whatever they are, would you go mad, please, and list as many as you can think, along with their meanings, for me to refer to in the future? Cuh, lol!

― Crufts, Friday, 16 April 2004 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

And I thought I wouldn't be able to get them down quick enough.

― Crufts, Friday, 16 April 2004 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

eh?

― Sid Team, Friday, 1 July 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

Aren't these a form of onomatopoeia? Written versions of verbal sounds we make when we are surprised, scared, whatever?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

I don't think onomatopoeia includes phonetic representations of non-verbal sounds made by humans, really. I don't know if there is a word for this.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Comiclamations.

― Owen, Friday, 1 July 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

Phatic comiclamations?

― Owen, Friday, 1 July 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

onomatotweeer

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Onomatasatacata

― Owen, Friday, 1 July 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

I write "arf" a lot these days. I blame Rainy. I say it out loud slightly less, though apparently enough for one person to start responding to it with "grr."

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Eep! Op! Ork! Ah-AH!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

gygax used to say "eep"

― Hand Shapes (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

yipe!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

i mean, ZOIKS!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

"Eep" or eek" are the best phonetic approximations of the alarm cry of a pika.

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 1 July 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

Ouah! Ouah!

(quick: what animal in what language?)

― giboyeux (skowly), Friday, 1 July 2005 22:57 (twenty years ago)

milou in belgian?

frogs say "kwak" in dutch

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 1 July 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

I am amazed The Unh! Project has not shown up on this thread yet.

This one is my favourite: http://members.shaw.ca/tom.t/unh/u46.html

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 1 July 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

Onomawannalaya.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 1 July 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

Huzzah!

― Standing in for Ned Raggett, Saturday, 2 July 2005 10:24 (twenty years ago)

Great link Jerry the Nipper ... I've learnt a new word! "Transfenestration" means "thrown out of a window".

― Duffy, Saturday, 2 July 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

There's also 'defenestration'.

― Orange (Orange), Saturday, 2 July 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

defenestration is being thrown out of a window so that you fall down to the ground

transfenestration is being thrown out of a window so that you travel horizontally parallel to the ground

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 2 July 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

http://members.shaw.ca/tom.t/unh/capwank2.gif

― beanz (beanz), Saturday, 2 July 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

wankfenestration: when you

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 3 July 2005 07:10 (twenty years ago)

meep!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 3 July 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

arf.

― beanz (beanz), Sunday, 3 July 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

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