# Creating Words for Sounds **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 31, 2003, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-words-for-sounds/210582 "2003-10-31T02:39:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-words-for-sounds/210582/1 "2003-10-31T02:39:18Z")
Some people are really good at making up new words for sounds, like scheeeeeeeech. What are the best ones you know? meep! meep! ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-words-for-sounds/210582/2 "2003-10-31T06:36:38Z")
whopwhopwhopwhopwhopwhop… (distant helicopter) flormp flormp flormpflormpflormp flormp (horse raises his tail and…) schwhump! (horse takes treat) ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-words-for-sounds/210582/3 "2003-10-31T06:50:23Z")
boyyyyyyyynnnnnng - large spring droped on concrete ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-words-for-sounds/210582/4 "2003-10-31T08:27:17Z")
ZzzZzzzzZzzzZzzzzzzzz - fly buzzing around your head ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-words-for-sounds/210582/5 "2003-10-31T09:25:51Z")
Don Martin of Mad magazine has to have been one of the great world classics at this. The one that’s always stuck in my mind is: _Poit!_ …The sound of one breast popping out of an over-tight dress. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-words-for-sounds/210582/6 "2003-10-31T10:58:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MacSpon \* > **Don Martin of Mad magazine has to have been one of the great world classics at this.** Oh yes, MAD magazine was (is?) the master of the phonic. I remember one they had: foynk - sound of a fart in the bathtub ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-words-for-sounds/210582/7 "2003-10-31T12:50:00Z")
I do it all the time, but I can’t spell them. Just ask **Orange Skinner** ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-words-for-sounds/210582/8 "2003-10-31T13:41:49Z")
wahwahwonnnngabippitybapbap! (This is the sound of my high school boyfriend’s glass pack carbuerator thingie.) ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-words-for-sounds/210582/9 "2003-10-31T20:45:34Z")
**badonkadonk** (ba-donk\*\*’\*\*-a-donk’), noun: the sound of an ample derierre as the owner walks or shakes her hips; adj.: describing a glutally well-endowed woman; syn: _bootylicious, callipygous_. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-words-for-sounds/210582/10 "2003-11-01T04:37:01Z")
Fwhoooooooo_bwik!_ – the sound made by lifting one’s foot out of a sea of muck ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-words-for-sounds/210582/11 "2003-11-01T08:47:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MacSpon \* > \*\*The one that’s always stuck in my mind is: > _Poit!_ > …The sound of one breast popping out of an over-tight dress. \*\* I’m not sure I’ll ever watch _Pinky and the Brain_ the same way again. :eek: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Trygve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4af34b/32.png) [@Trygve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trygve)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-words-for-sounds/210582/12 "2003-11-01T12:24:34Z")
Botz! (sound of an orange hitting a concrete wall at high speed) ---
**Author:** ![Trygve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4af34b/32.png) [@Trygve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trygve)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-words-for-sounds/210582/13 "2003-11-01T12:25:51Z")
(as told to me by a German friend) ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-words-for-sounds/210582/14 "2003-11-01T12:36:26Z")
rrrrrrputpuputputputputputput - farting on a plastic chair kathud - getting knocked out by the fart ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-words-for-sounds/210582/15 "2003-11-01T13:15:58Z")
Mawwwwwwwww n Pawwwwwww - Riding out first and second gears on a manual transmission. Grandddddddddddddddpappy - Downshifting one gear too many. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-words-for-sounds/210582/16 "2003-11-02T04:43:13Z")
_Whooooooff_ The sound made when flammable gases are ignited in a non constrained place (outdoor grille). _ArnnnNNN **NNN**. BEP_ The sound made when a motor is locked, overloading, and the protector trips. Holy onomatopoeia, Batman! ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-words-for-sounds/210582/17 "2003-11-02T08:41:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by danceswithcats \* > \*\*\*Holy onomatopoeia, Batman! \*\* Biff!!! Baff!!! Zowie!!!