verbs coming from sounds

[Roi Marphille]

Hey,
what about to list some verbs which come from sounds..

to shush: to ask silence to somebody
to boo: show displeasure, as after a performance or speech.
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cheers,
Roi

 

[nycphotography]

to gurgle
to gargle
to sigh
to yap
to yelp
to groan
to whisper
to mew or meow
to smack
to pop
to moo
to bleat
to tinkle
to crunch or scrunch or skrunch
to crack

 

[nycphotography]

oh!!

to zip!

 

[Roi Marphille]

to miaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaow !

 

[Outsider]

to smash
to toot
to bang
to whoosh
to whiz
to hiss

 

[E-J]

I feel as if I've strayed into a farmyard

Just for reference, these are called onomatopoeic words http://www.wordreference.com/definition/onomatopoeic

 

[*Cowgirl*]

To Cluck
To Ring
To Belch
To Whack
To Bark
To Whinny
To Neigh
To Crash
To "Boo Hoo"
To Clap

 

[Sean Brian Kirby]

Click
Clack
Snap
Boom

And a personal favorite: Vroom!

 

[Roi Marphille]

To Cluck
To Ring
To Belch
To Whack
To Bark
To Whinny
To Neigh
To Crash
To "Boo Hoo"
To Clap

boo hoo?
what's boo hoing?

 

[mrenglish]

crying (colloquial)

 

[timpeac]

crying (colloquial)

Often used to be sarcastically sympathetic. "So her husband left her, boo hoo, tell her to get back to work".

 

[Alunarada]

"To knock"

 

[*Cowgirl*]

To croak
To cluck

 

[shamblesuk]

Would you really class 'boo hoo' as a verb? I boo-hooed, she boo-hooed, they used to boo-hoo etc. More of an interjection I would propose.

To Cluck
To Ring
To Belch
To Whack
To Bark
To Whinny
To Neigh
To Crash
To "Boo Hoo"
To Clap

 

[GenJen54]

Would you really class 'boo hoo' as a verb? I boo-hooed, she boo-hooed, they used to boo-hoo etc. More of an interjection I would propose.

Regardless of its official "status," I certainly don't have a problem with "boo-hoo" as a verb. It's stylisitc, but can set the right tone and sense of a person's experience, much more than sobbed, wailed, weeped (wept), teared up, etc., etc. There's a comedic loudness to "boo-hoo" that the other verbs cannot carry.

It's not the most literary choice, perhaps, but a choice nonetheless.

Of course, this could also be yet another example of the AE proclivity to verb-ize other words for our convenience.

 

[Roi Marphille]

to warp..
..mmm...is this onomatopoeic ?

warp warp warp...

 

[*Cowgirl*]

..mmm...is this onomatopoeic ?

"sounds" like it to me.