abay

English: abay

(rare) The state of being defenceless against one's enemies.


crow

From Middle English crowe, from Old English crāwe, from Proto-West Germanic *krāā, from Proto-Germanic *krēǭ (compare West Frisian krie, Dutch kraai, German Krähe), from *krēaną (“to crow”). See below.

“Ay,” put in a young man, who had the reputation of being the smartest “crow” in London—“‘fishers of men,’ as the parson says.”

1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of his Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 53:

(now rare, slang) Someone who keeps watch while their associates commit a crime; a lookout.


crow

Coordinate term: raven

"Though her her crow hair is lovely and wavy, she loathes it and craves yellow locks. Since she saw Hugh, she's given me no peace.” Sheffield's square , good-looking face shaped a grimace.

1945, George Marsh, Ask No Quarter, New York, W. Morrow & Company:

[…] only her crow hair could be seen. Her appearance could not be seen as she anxiously called out, "Mother ..." The setting sun cast a dim yellow light on the interior of the house. The woman lay on her back and looked up at the beams overhead[…]

2019 December 6, Shi Shuifeiyan, Escaped Consort: Hubby, Don’t Chase Me: Volume 3, Funstory, →ISBN:

(uncommon) Dark black, the color of a crow; crow-black.


crow

en-verb

crow (third-person singular simple present crows, present participle crowing, simple past crowed or (UK) crew, past participle crowed or (archaic) crown)

crows (present singular third-person)
crowing (participle present)
crowed (past)
crew (UK past)
crowed (participle past)
crown (archaic participle past)

The verb is from Middle English crowen, from Old English crāwan (past tense crēow, past participle crāwen), from Proto-West Germanic *krāan, from Proto-Germanic *krēaną, from imitative Proto-Indo-European *gerH- (“to cry hoarsely”).
The noun is from Middle English crowe, from the verb.
Compare Dutch kraaien, German krähen, Lithuanian gróti, Russian гра́ять (grájatʹ)). Related to croak.

onomatopoeic

imitative

der

He’s been crowing all day about winning the game of cards.

Touting its sponsorship of local engineering and sustainability programs, Amazon crows about such “investments” as its dog park, playing fields, art installations, and Buckyball-reminiscent domical gardens.

2017 September 27, Julianne Tveten, “Zucktown, USA”, in The Baffler:

Another of my favorite dishes, the Asian chicken salad, was inspired by a skit by comedian Margaret Cho (“This is not the salad of my people…” she crows).

2023 October 7, Ajesh Patalay, quoting Margaret Cho, “The Naked Chef 2.0”, in FT Weekend, HTSI, page 77:

(intransitive) To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.


crow

onomatopoeic

imitative

The cry or call of a rooster or a cockerel, especially as heard at sunrise.


trumpet

From Middle English trumpet, trumpette, trompette (“trumpet”), from Old French trompette (“trumpet”), diminutive of trompe (“horn, trump, trumpet”), from Frankish *trumpa, *trumba (“trumpet”), ultimately imitative.
Cognate with Old High German trumpa, trumba (“horn, trumpet”), Middle Dutch tromme (“drum”), Middle Low German trumme (“drum”), Old Norse trumba (“pipe; trumpet”). More at drum.
Displaced native English beme, from Middle English beme, from Old English bīeme.

imitative

(US, slang, often capitalized) A supporter of Donald Trump, especially a fervent one.


be

(onomatopoeia) used to imitate the sound of a sheep or ram, baa


pip

From Old Norse *pípa, from Proto-Germanic *pīpaną.

Pip! Datorn pep.

"Pip!" sa musen och fågelungen

The mouse squeaked and the baby bird peeped


pip

pip (indefinite nominative singular)
pipet (definite nominative singular)
pip (indefinite nominative plural)
pipen (definite nominative plural)
pips (genitive indefinite singular)
pipets (definite genitive singular)
pips (genitive indefinite plural)
pipens (definite genitive plural)

Datorn gav ifrån sig ett pip

Pip hördes från mössen och fågelungarna

Squeaks were heard from the mice and peeps from the baby birds

Vi har inte hört ett pip från dom

We haven't heard a peep from them [idiomatic]


pi

cheep, used to imitate the sound made by a chick


quack

From Middle English *quacken, queken (“to croak like a frog; make a noise like a duck, goose, or quail”), from quack, qwacke, quek, queke (“quack”, interjection and noun), also kek, keke, whec-, partly of imitative origin and partly from Middle Dutch quacken (“to croak, quack”), from Old Dutch *kwaken (“to croak, quack”), from Proto-West Germanic *kwakōn, from Proto-Germanic *kwakaną, *kwakōną (“to croak”), of imitative origin. Cognate with Saterland Frisian kwoakje, kwaakje (“to quack”), Middle Low German quaken (“to quack, croak”), German quaken (“to quack, croak”), Danish kvække (“to croak”), Swedish kväka (“to croak, quackle”), Norwegian kvekke (“to croak”), Icelandic kvaka (“to twitter, chirp, quack”).

cog

Did you hear that duck make a quack?


quack

en-verb

quack (third-person singular simple present quacks, present participle quacking, simple past and past participle quacked)

quacks (present singular third-person)
quacking (participle present)
quacked (participle past)
quacked (past)

(intransitive) Of a queen bee: to make a high-pitched sound during certain stages of development.


quack

Clipping of quacksalver (see there for more), of Dutch origin; ultimately related to Etymology 1 above.

հեքիմ

fraudulent or incompetent doctor of medicine

That doctor is nothing but a lousy quack!

1662, Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs Relating to Late Times, Vol. II, by ‘the most Eminent Wits’
Tis hard to say, how much these Arse-wormes do urge us, We now need no Quack but these Jacks for to purge us, …

After ſome Months, the Quack gets privately to Town, [...]

‘if we are ourselves valets, there shall ‘exist no hero for us; we shall not know the hero when we see him;’ - we shall take the quack for a hero; and cry, audibly through all ballot-boxes and machinery whatsoever, Thou art he; be thou King over us!

1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 8, The Electon”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):

The advertising quack who wearies / With tales of countless cures, / His teeth, I've enacted, / Shall all be extracted / By terrified amateurs.

1885, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, “A More Humane Mikado”, in […] The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu, London: Chappel & Co., […], →OCLC, Act II, page 36:

Polly (to security guard, referring to Dr. Feingarten): Are you going to let that shyster in there?
Dr. Feingarten: I could sue you, Polly. A shyster is a disreputable lawyer. I'm a quack.

"I don't want to get into specifics, but when I was born, my parts were considered... ambiguous. The quack of a doctor that delivered me, had trouble assigning a gender. So at his recommendation - and surgical intervention - I was raised as a boy."

2017 March 1, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 920 - Quack:

(derogatory) A fraudulent healer, especially a bombastic peddler in worthless treatments, a doctor who makes false diagnoses for monetary benefit, or an untrained or poorly trained doctor who uses fraudulent credentials to attract patients

The very quaik of faſhions, the very hee that / VVeares a Steletto on his chinne.

c. 1635–1636 (date written), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Fancies, Chast and Noble: […], London: […] E[lizabeth] P[urslowe] for Henry Seile, […], published 1638, →OCLC, Act III, page 32:

(figuratively, derogatory) Any similar charlatan or incompetent professional.

That quack wants me to quit smoking, eat less, and start exercising. The nerve!

(humorous slang, mildly derogatory) Any doctor.


quack

Seek out for Plants with Signatures
To Quack of Universal Cures

1684, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, London, Part 3, Canto 1, p. 18:

(obsolete) To make vain and loud pretensions.


balido

the sound of a sheep, lamb, goat, deer; baa, bleat


bei

eo-verb

bei (present beas, past beis, future beos, conditional beus, volitive beu)

beas (present)
beis (past)
beos (future)
beus (conditional)
beu (volitive)
beas (present)
beis (past)
beos (future)
beanta (active participle present singular)
beantaj (active participle plural present)
beinta (active participle past singular)
beintaj (active participle past plural)
beonta (active future participle singular)
beontaj (active future participle plural)
beantan (accusative active participle present singular)
beantajn (accusative active participle plural present)
beintan (accusative active participle past singular)
beintajn (accusative active participle past plural)
beontan (accusative active future participle singular)
beontajn (accusative active future participle plural)
beanto (active noun-from-verb participle present singular)
beantoj (active noun-from-verb participle plural present)
beinto (active noun-from-verb participle past singular)
beintoj (active noun-from-verb participle past plural)
beonto (active future noun-from-verb participle singular)
beontoj (active future noun-from-verb participle plural)
beanton (accusative active noun-from-verb participle present singular)
beantojn (accusative active noun-from-verb participle plural present)
beinton (accusative active noun-from-verb participle past singular)
beintojn (accusative active noun-from-verb participle past plural)
beonton (accusative active future noun-from-verb participle singular)
beontojn (accusative active future noun-from-verb participle plural)
beante (active adverbial participle present)
beinte (active adverbial participle past)
beonte (active adverbial future participle)
bei (infinitive)
beu (imperative)
beus (conditional)

From be (“baa”) + -i (infinitive verb suffix).

suffix

to make the characteristic cry of a sheep; to baa


bee

onomatopoeic

imitative

nec multo secus nostri ab eadem voce, sed ab alia litera. vox earum non me, sed bee sonare videtur.

116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, Agricultural Topics 2.1.7, (The spelling "be" is also read in this passage)


song

songes (plural)
song (accusative nominative singular)
songes (accusative nominative plural)
songes (genitive singular)
songe (genitive plural)
songes (genitive plural)
songe (dative singular)
songen (dative plural)

English: song

Scots: song, sang

Yola: zong

From Old English sang, song, from Proto-West Germanic *sangw, from Proto-Germanic *sangwaz.

The practice or an instance of singing songs.

The sound produced by a bird (rarely other creatures)


cry

English: cry

Scots: cry

Yola: crie, cry

Borrowed from Old French cri, from crier; compare crien.

A shout or yell; a loud vocalisation:
A call of distress or sorrow.

A shout or yell; a loud vocalisation:
A plea for help or justice.

An announcement or report:
A call for people; a summons.


me

baa (representing the bleating sound sheep make)


bell

→ Fiji Hindi: belo

→ Japanese: ベル (beru)

→ Korean: 벨 (bel)

From Middle English belle, from Old English belle (“bell”), from Proto-Germanic *bellǭ. Cognate with West Frisian belle, bel, Dutch bel, Low German Belle, Bel, Danish bjelde, Swedish bjällra, Norwegian bjelle, Icelandic bjalla.

campanilian

related to a peal of bells or bell tower


bir

onomatopoeic alarm noise of a gannet when attacked at night


cuckoo

en-noun

cuckoo (countable and uncountable, plural cuckoos)

From Middle English cokkou, probably from Old French cucu (whence French coucou); ultimately onomatopoeic of the song of the male Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), perhaps via Latin cucūlus (“cuckoo”). Displaced native Old English ġēac (Middle English ȝek (“cuckoo”)).

He knows me, as the blind man knows the cuckoo, / By the bad voice.

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

Cuculus canorus
Cuculus canorus#Translingual

Any of various birds, of the family Cuculidae, famous for laying its eggs in the nests of other species; but especially a common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), that has a characteristic two-note call.

The bird-shaped figure found in cuckoo clocks.

Alternative form of coo-coo (Barbadian food)


cuckoo

en-verb

cuckoo (third-person singular simple present cuckoos, present participle cuckooing, simple past and past participle cuckooed)

cuckoos (present singular third-person)
cuckooing (participle present)
cuckooed (participle past)
cuckooed (past)

She'll have been cuckooed. That'll be the Knezevics. They can't launder fast enough, so what do you do with it? Where do you put it? You hide it in somebody else's place; somebody who han't got a clue what's going on and couldn't do a fat lot about it if they did.

2023, Sally Wainwright, 26:06 from the start, in Happy Valley, season 3, episode 2, spoken by Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire):

(UK, law enforcement) To take over the home of a vulnerable person for the purposes of carrying out organized crime in a concealed way.


gaggle

gaggle (third-person singular simple present gaggles, present participle gaggling, simple past and past participle gaggled)

gaggles (present singular third-person)
gaggling (participle present)
gaggled (participle past)
gaggled (past)

From Middle English gagelen (“to cackle; cackle like a goose”). Compare Dutch gaggelen (“to cackle”), Icelandic gagl (“small goose; gosling”).

inh

Geese do gaggle

1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

When a friend asked Socrates, how he could bear the scolding of his wife Xantippe? he retorted, and asked him, how he could bear the gaggling of his geese?

1733, Jonathan Swift, "A New Simile for the Ladies with Useful Annotations by Dr. Sheridan", note 7 (in The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol. II)

To make a noise like a goose; to cackle.


low

en-verb

low (third-person singular simple present lows, present participle lowing, simple past and past participle lowed)

lows (present singular third-person)
lowing (participle present)
lowed (participle past)
lowed (past)

From Middle English lowen (“to low”), from Old English hlōwan (“to low, bellow, roar”), from Proto-Germanic *hlōaną (“to call, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call”).
Cognate with Dutch loeien (“to low”), Middle High German lüejen (“to roar”), dialectal Swedish lumma (“to roar”), Latin calō (“I call”), Ancient Greek καλέω (kaléō), Latin clāmō (“I shout, claim”). More at claim.

inh

The cattle were lowing.

In peals of thunder now she roars--and now / She gently whimpers like a lowing cow

1726, Jonathan Swift, “The Lamentations of Glumdalclitch for the Loss of Grildrig”, in Gulliver's Travels, A Voyage to Brobdingnag:

The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea.

1750, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

It would have been a great privilege to be the mistress of an old time-honoured mansion, to call oaks and elms her own, to know that acres of gardens were submitted to her caprices, to look at herds of cows and oxen, and be aware that they lowed on her own pastures.

1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “The Honourable Mr. Glascock”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume I, London: Strahan and Company, […], →OCLC, page 107:


喵

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声): semantic 口 + phonetic 苗.

Han compound

Let's learn the cat's cry together. Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow together.

wǒmen yīqǐ xué māo jiào, yīqǐ miāo miāo miāo miāo miāo

我們一起學貓叫，一起喵喵喵喵喵

我们一起学猫叫，一起喵喵喵喵喵

(onomatopoeia) the sound of a cat: meow, mew.


moo

en-verb

moo (third-person singular simple present moos, present participle mooing, simple past and past participle mooed)

moos (present singular third-person)
mooing (participle present)
mooed (participle past)
mooed (past)

(intransitive) Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound.


huk

hȗk (canonical masculine)
ху̑к (Cyrillic)
huk (nominative singular)
huka (genitive singular)
huku (dative singular)
huk (accusative singular)
huče (singular vocative)
huku (locative singular)
hukom (instrumental singular)

rumble, roar, rumble (indefinite noise or murmur)


peep

Back-formation from peeps, a shortened form of people.


chortle

Perhaps a blend of chuckle + snort. Coined by Lewis Carroll in his poem Jabberwocky, completed in 1855 but only introduced to the public in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass.

He frequently interrupted himself with chortles while he told us his favorite joke.

A joyful, somewhat muffled laugh, rather like a snorting chuckle.

A similar sounding vocalisation of various birds.


chortle

chortle (third-person singular simple present chortles, present participle chortling, simple past and past participle chortled)

chortles (present singular third-person)
chortling (participle present)
chortled (participle past)
chortled (past)

The old fellow chortled as he recalled his youthful adventures.

'O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy.

(intransitive) To laugh with a chortle or chortles.


hee-haw

en-noun

hee-haw (countable and uncountable, plural hee-haws)

/ˈhiː.hɔ̰̃ː/

Apart from one cool fight sequence, she pretty much does hee-haw - just like Iron Man.

2010 April 30, Grant Lauchlan, Daily Record:

People like Dick Advocaat, who knew hee-haw about Scottish football's history, set about whittling away little bits of our tradition on the grounds... well, let's be honest, that they were an inconvenience.

2010 September 27, Bill Leckie, The Scottish Sun:


bleat

en-verb

bleat (third-person singular simple present bleats, present participle bleating, simple past and past participle bleated)

bleats (present singular third-person)
bleating (participle present)
bleated (participle past)
bleated (past)

From Middle English bleten, from Old English blǣtan (“to bleat”), from Proto-West Germanic *blātijan, from Proto-Germanic *blētijaną (“to bleat”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to howl, cry, bleat”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to make a loud noise”).
Cognate with Scots blete, bleit, West Frisian bâlte, blaaien, blêtsje (“to bleat”), Dutch blaten (“to bleat”), Low German bleten (“to bleat”), German blaßen, blässen (“to bleat”).

der

The last thing we need is to hear them bleating to us about organizational problems.

(informal, derogatory) Of a person, to complain.


baa

[bæ̰ˀæ̰ˀæ̰ˀæ̰ˀ]

Compare German bäh, mäh; an imitative word.

(onomatopoeia) The characteristic cry or bleating of a sheep.


baa

[bæ̰ˀæ̰ˀæ̰ˀæ̰ˀ]

(onomatopoeia) The characteristic cry of a sheep.


baa

en-verb

baa (third-person singular simple present baas, present participle baaing, simple past and past participle baaed)

baas (present singular third-person)
baaing (participle present)
baaed (participle past)
baaed (past)

[bæ̰ˀæ̰ˀæ̰ˀæ̰ˀ]

He treble baas for help, but none can get.

a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:

The lamb bunted several irresponsive objects - never its dam's udder - baaing listlessly.

1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 44:

To make the characteristic cry of a sheep.


bray

bray (third-person singular simple present brays, present participle braying, simple past and past participle brayed)

brays (present singular third-person)
braying (participle present)
brayed (participle past)
brayed (past)

The verb is derived from Middle English brayen, brai, bray, braye (“of a person or animal: to vocalize loudly; of the weather: to make a loud sound, howl, roar”), from Old French brai, braire (“of an animal: to bray; of a person: to cry or shout out”) (modern French braire (“of an animal: to bray; of a person: to shout; to cry, weep”)), possibly from Vulgar Latin *bragiō, from Gaulish *bragu (compare Breton breugiñ (“to bray”), brammañ (“to flatulate”), Cornish bramma, brabma (“to flatulate”), Old Irish braigid (“to flatulate”)), from Proto-Celtic *brageti, *bragyeti (“to flatulate”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreHg- (“to flatulate; to stink”); cognate with Latin fragrō (“to smell”). Alternatively, the word could be from a Germanic source, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”), and cognate with frangere (“to break, shatter”).
The noun is derived from the verb, or from Middle English brai, brait (“shriek; outcry”), from Old French brai, brait (“a cry”), from braire (“of an animal: to bray; of a person: to shout; to cry, weep”); see above.

der

Whenever I walked by, that donkey brayed at me.

When she went to the famous ass-race [...], it was not, like other ladies, to hear those poor animals bray, nor see fellows run naked, or to hear country squires in bob wigs and white girdles make love at the side of a coach and cry, "Madam, this is dainty weather."

1712 April 27 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “WEDNESDAY, April 16, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 354; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume IV, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 293:

Henry [IV of France], paſſing through a little town, ſaw ſeveral deputies coming up to harangue him. One of them having commenced his diſcourſe, was interrupted by an aſs, who began to bray. "Gentlemen," cried the King, "one at a time, if you pleaſe."—

1792 July, “Art. II. Interesting Anecdotes of Henry IV. of France. Containing Sublime Traits and Lively Sallies of Wit of that Monarch; […]. Translated from the French. Crown 8vo. 2 Vols. 6s. Boards. Debrett. 1792. [book review]”, in The Monthly Review; or, Literary Journal, Enlarged, volume VIII, London: Printed for R[alph] Griffiths; and sold by T[homas] Becket, […], published 1794, →OCLC, page 249:

The horse neighs, but the ass brays: the last is performed by a very loud, long, disagreeable, discordant cry, consisting of discords alternately sharp and flat. He seldom brays but when pressed with hunger or love. [...] When gelded, the ass brays with a low voice; and, though he makes the same efforts and the same motions of the throat, yet the sound reaches to no great distance.

1812, Count de Buffon [i.e., Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon], “The Ass”, in William Smellie, transl., Natural History, General and Particular, […]. The History of Man and Quadrupeds: Translated, with Notes and Observations, […] In Twenty Volumes, volume IV, London: Printed for T[homas] Cadell and W[illiam] Davies, […], →OCLC, page 174:

(intransitive) Of an animal (now chiefly of animals related to the ass or donkey, and the camel): to make its cry.

[N]ow ſtorming furie roſe, / And clamour ſuch as heard in Heav'n till now / Was never, Arms on Armour claſhing bray'd / Horrible discord, and the madding Wheeles / Of brazen Chariots rag'd; [...]

1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 207–211:

Just then the chiefs their tribes arrayed, / And wild and garish semblance made, / The chequered trews, and belted plaid, / And varying notes the war-pipes brayed, / To every varying clan; [...]

1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Canto Fifth. The Court.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, stanza V, page 247:

(transitive) To make or utter (a shout, sound, etc.) discordantly, loudly, or in a harsh and grating manner.

крещя

to make or utter (a shout, etc.) discordantly, loudly, or in a harsh and grating manner


bray

The cry of an animal, now chiefly that of animals related to the ass or donkey, or the camel.


bray

From Middle English brayen (“to break or crush into pieces”), from Anglo-Norman breier, Old French breie, breier, broiier (modern French broyer (“to crush, grind”)), possibly from Frankish *brekan (“to break”), from Proto-Germanic *brekaną (“to break”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break”); thus making the English word a doublet of break.

der

Though thou ſhouldeſt bray a fool in a morter among wheate with a peſtell, yet will not his fooliſhneſſe depart from him.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 27:22:

Their heads and ſhoulders are painted red with the roote Pocone brayed to powder, mixed with oyle, this they hold in ſommer to preſerue them from the heate, and in winter from the cold.

1624, Iohn Smith, “The Commodities in Virginia, or that May Be Had by Industrie”, in The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: […], London: […] I[ohn] D[awson] and I[ohn] H[aviland] for Michael Sparkes, →OCLC, book 2; reprinted in The Generall Historie of Virginia, … (Bibliotheca Americana), Cleveland, Oh.: The World Publishing Company, 1966, →OCLC, page 30:

They boyle it alſo, and after dry it and bray it, and of this bran, with egges, hony, milke, and butter of Cocos, they make Florentines, and verie good belly-timber.

1625, Samuel Purchas, “Their Cocos and other fruits and food, their Trades and trading, Creatures profitable and hurtfull. Of Male their principall Iland. Their Houſes, Candou, Languages, Apparell.”, in Pvrchas his Pilgrimes. In Five Bookes. … The Second Part., volume II, London: Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, page 1643 [sic: 1653]:

(transitive, archaic) To crush or pound, especially using a pestle and mortar.

счуквам

to crush or pound — see also crush, pound


riet

head

riet (transitive, 1st conjugation, present reju, rej, rej, past rēju)

conjugation (first-person)
reju (present)
rej (present)
rēju (past)
reju (first-person indicative present singular)
rēju (first-person indicative past singular)
riešu (first-person future indicative singular)
rej (indicative present second-person singular)
rēji (indicative past second-person singular)
riesi (future indicative second-person singular)
rej (imperative second-person singular)
rej (indicative present singular third-person)
rēja (indicative past singular third-person)
ries (future indicative singular third-person)
lai rej (imperative singular third-person)
rejam (first-person indicative plural present)
rējām (first-person indicative past plural)
riesim (first-person future indicative plural)
riesim (first-person imperative plural)
rejat (indicative plural present second-person)
rējāt (indicative past plural second-person)
riesiet (future indicative plural second-person)
riesit (future indicative plural second-person)
rejiet (imperative plural second-person)
rej (indicative plural present third-person)
rēja (indicative past plural third-person)
ries (future indicative plural third-person)
lai rej (imperative plural third-person)
rejot (present renarrative)
rejošs (active adjectival participle participle-1 present)
esot rējis (past renarrative)
riedams (active adverbial participle participle-2 present)
riešot (future renarrative)
rejot (active adverbial participle participle-3 present)
lai rejot (imperative)
rejam (active participle participle-4 present)
rējis (active participle past)
rietu (conditional present)
būtu rējis (conditional past)
jārej (debitive indicative)
būt jārej (debitive indicative)
riet (infinitive)
esot jārej (conjunctive conjunctive-1 debitive)
neriet (infinitive negative)
jārejot (conjunctive conjunctive-2 debitive)
riešana (noun-from-verb)

From Proto-Baltic *rey-tey, *rey-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *rey-. The original diphthong ey is still seen in the present tense forms (reju, etc.). Cognates include Lithuanian ríeti (“to bark; to scold”), Old Prussian rīgewings (/rījewinɡs/, “quarreling”), Russian dialectal ра́ять (rájatʹ, “to make noise”), Old High German rērēn, Middle High German rēren (“to bleat, to bellow, to shout”), German röhren, Sanskrit रायति (rāyati, “to bark”), Ossetian рӕйын (ræjyn), рӕйун (ræjun), Northern Kurdish reyîn (“to bark”).

cog

Lizalka, mūžam ar visu neapmierināta, rēja uz cilvēkiem gluži kā suns.

Lizalka, eternally dissatisfied with everything, barked at people just like a dog.

(of people) to bark (to talk loud, usually angrily)


ook

Imitative of the cry of an ape or monkey.

onomatopoeic

Imitative

He tapped the Librarian on the shoulder. "Excuse me —" "Ook?" "Those guys just called you a monkey," said Glod.

The irate ape cries, "Ook ook! Ai ai ai!" He springs off the edge of the stone basin, clawing Cantare across the face and bursting through the door.

2004, Robert Arellano, Don Dimaio of La Plata:

Fingers pinched my eyelashes and lifted one eyelid. I looked straight into a big, leathery black face surrounded by brown fur. “Ook?” asked the monkey.

2014, Victoria Wessex, Shipwrecked with the Billionaire Rock Star:

(onomatopoeia) Used to represent the sound of the cry of an ape or monkey.

ウキー

used to represent the sound of the cry of an ape or monkey — see also oo oo aa aa


cock-a-doodle-doo

Hark, hark, I heare, the ſtraine of ſtrutting Chanticlere cry cockadidle-dowe.

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 5, column 1:

Chook, chook, quack, quack, / Cock-a-doodle-doo; / All the ducks and the fowls / Admire me, they do.

1875 July 23, Sydney Punch, page 1, column 1:


miaow

(chiefly dated) British spelling of meow


miaow

en-verb

miaow (third-person singular simple present miaows, present participle miaowing, simple past and past participle miaowed)

miaows (present singular third-person)
miaowing (participle present)
miaowed (participle past)
miaowed (past)


bok

"Do you want to go to the movies?" "Ja, I'm bok."


bok

onomatopoeic

Imitative

And he says, "Chicken! Bok bok bok bok!" One time I got up and put the controller down and we started fighting.

2000, William S Pollack, Todd Shuster, Real boys' voices:

So the librarian gives the chicken a book. The chicken goes away, but comes back the next day, goes up to the librarian's desk and says: 'Bok, bok!'

2004, Andrew Bennett, Nicholas Royle, An introduction to literature, criticism and theory:


caw

en-verb

caw (third-person singular simple present caws, present participle cawing, simple past and past participle cawed)

caws (present singular third-person)
cawing (participle present)
cawed (participle past)
cawed (past)

Rising and cawing at the gun's report.

c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

To make the harsh cry of a crow, rook, or raven.

نَعَقَ

to make the cry of a crow, rook, or raven


caw

"Amen," said M., in a grave and solemn tone. "Caw," croaked the jackdaw immediately, and with such a sonorous effect, that it disturbed our pious mien and upset our gravity.

1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 36:

A rendering of the vocalisation of a crow or other corvid.


croak

From Middle English *croken, crouken, (also represented by craken > crake), back-formation from Old English crācettan (“to croak”) (also in derivative crǣcettung (“croaking”)), from Proto-Germanic *krēk- (compare Swedish kråka, German krächzen), potentially from Proto-Indo-European *greh₂-g- (compare Sanskrit गर्जति (garjati, “to growl”); also Latin grāculus (“jackdaw”), Serbo-Croatian grákati from *greh₂-k-), of onomatopoeic origin.

The call of a frog or toad. (see also ribbit)


grunt

From Middle English grunten, from Old English grunnettan (“to grunt”), from Proto-West Germanic *grunnattjan, from Proto-Germanic *grunnatjaną (“to grunt”), frequentative of Proto-Germanic *grunnōną (“to grunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrun- (“to shout”).
Cognate with German grunzen (“to grunt”), Danish grynte (“to grunt”). The noun senses are all instances of zero derivation from the verb.

der

Any fish of the perciform family Haemulidae.

Coordinate term: pogue

The poges stare at the grunts as though the grunts were Hell's Angels at the ballet.

1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 39:

The events described are those encountered by only 160 men, though the adversity recounted is representative of that experienced by all grunts in Vietnam.

1984, Charles Robert Anderson, The Grunts, Berkley Books, →ISBN, page xii:

He can't make that kind of decision. He's just a grunt!

1986, James Cameron, Aliens, spoken by Burke (Paul Reiser):

(US, military slang) An infantry soldier.

(Canada, US) A dessert of steamed berries and dough, usually blueberries; blueberry grunt.


grunt

en-verb

grunt (third-person singular simple present grunts, present participle grunting, simple past and past participle grunted)

grunts (present singular third-person)
grunting (participle present)
grunted (participle past)
grunted (past)

Who just grunted?

(intransitive, UK, slang) To break wind; to fart.


roar

roar (third-person singular simple present roars, present participle roaring, simple past and past participle roared)

roars (present singular third-person)
roaring (participle present)
roared (participle past)
roared (past)

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

From Middle English roren, raren, from Old English rārian (“to roar; wail; lament”), from Proto-West Germanic *rairōn, from Proto-Germanic *rairōną (“to bellow; roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“to shout; bellow; yell; bark”), perhaps of imitative origin. Cognate with Saterland Frisian roorje (“to roar”), German röhren (“to roar”).

der

Tom, Tom, the piper's son,
Stole a pig, and away he run!
The pig was eat, and Tom was beat,
And Tom went roaring down the street.

1886, James Orchard Halliwell, “Third Class: Tales: LX”, in The Nursery Rhymes of England:

(British Yorkshire, North Midlands, informal) To cry.


neigh

en-verb

neigh (third-person singular simple present neighs, present participle neighing, simple past and past participle neighed)

neighs (present singular third-person)
neighing (participle present)
neighed (participle past)
neighed (past)

From Middle English neighen, from Old English hnǣġan, from Proto-Germanic *hnaijan, from Proto-Germanic *hnajjaną (“to neigh”). Cognate with dialectal Dutch neien, Middle Low German neigen, Swedish gnägga, Icelandic hneggja.

"I went into the stable first to see to the horse, and found him neighing and waiting for his hay, so I went up into the hay-loft for an armful[.]"

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 33:


purr

purr (third-person singular simple present purrs, present participle purring, simple past and past participle purred)

purrs (present singular third-person)
purring (participle present)
purred (participle past)
purred (past)

Onomatopoeic.

recorded purring of a cat

listen/core

recorded purring of a cat

ombox/core

recorded purring of a cat

ombox

recorded purring of a cat

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recorded purring of a cat

He purred like a kitten when she massaged his neck.

(intransitive) To make a vibrating throaty sound, as from pleasure.

Beverly passed the city limits sign with the Porsche's motor purring contentedly after its two hundred and fifty-mile romp.

2001, E. C. Craver, Last Reunion, page 159:

(intransitive, of an engine) To make a low and consistent rumbling sound.

бръмча

of an engine: to make a low rumbling sound


purr

listen/core

recorded purring of a cat

ombox/core

recorded purring of a cat

ombox

recorded purring of a cat

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recorded purring of a cat

Instead, the tiger looked around, and gave a purr, and then a growl. What did that mean? The man could not tell. Then the tiger just flung upon the man some of the sand from the side of the hollow.

1918, Sarath Kumar Ghosh, The wonders of the jungle - Volume 2, page 113:

The vibrating sound made by a cat in its throat when contented.

мъркане

vibrating sound made by a cat when contented

The trill of her purr echoed inside his mouth when he kissed her again. Clutching at his shirt, her fingers traveled the muscles in his back.

2006, Brenda Williamson, Wolverton Blood, page 53:

A throaty, seductive sound of pleasure made by a person.


purr

listen/core

recorded purring of a cat

ombox/core

recorded purring of a cat

ombox

recorded purring of a cat

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recorded purring of a cat


meow

Alteration of earlier mew, from Middle English mewen, mouwen (“to mew, meow”), of onomatopoeic origin.
Compare Saterland Frisian mauje, miauje (“to meow”), West Frisian miaukje (“to meow”), Dutch miauwen (“to meow”), Middle Low German mauwen, mawen, mouwen (“to meow”) (whence modern German Low German mauen, miauen (“to meow”)), Middle High German mouen, modern German miauen (“to meow”). Some spellings were modelled on French miaou.
Meow and its spelling variants entered widespread currency in the 19th century, mostly replacing mew. Possibly because phonetic change meant that word had ceased to approximate a cat's cry. Contrast the pronunciation of Middle English mewen /ˈmɛu̯ən/ compared to modern /ˈmjuː/).

(colloquial) Expressing seductiveness, mimicking a growl.


meow

en-noun

meow (countable and uncountable, plural meows)

A cat’s meow and a cow’s moo, I can recite them all / Just tell me where it hurts you, honey

1968, Bob Dylan (lyrics and music), “Quinn the Eskimo”:

(UK, slang, uncountable) The drug mephedrone.


meow

en-verb

meow (third-person singular simple present meows, present participle meowing, simple past and past participle meowed)

meows (present singular third-person)
meowing (participle present)
meowed (participle past)
meowed (past)
meow (infinitive)

(intransitive) Of a cat, to make its cry.


bark

From Middle English barken, berken, borken, from Old English beorcan (“to bark”), from the Proto-West Germanic *berkan (“to bark”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerg- (“to make a noise, growl, bark”), from *bʰer- (“to drone, hum, buzz”). Cognate with Icelandic berkja (“to bark, bluster”), Icelandic barki (“throat, windpipe”), dialectal Lithuanian burgė́ti (“to growl, grumble, grouch, quarrel”), Serbo-Croatian brbljati (“to murmur”). For the noun, compare Old English beorc, bearce (“barking”).

recorded barks (noun sense 1) of a dog.

listen/core

recorded barks (noun sense 1) of a dog

ombox/core

recorded barks (noun sense 1) of a dog

ombox

recorded barks (noun sense 1) of a dog

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recorded barks (noun sense 1) of a dog

Fox’s clumsy figure, negligently dressed in blue and buff, seemed unprepossessing; only his shaggy eyebrows added to the expression of his face; his voice would rise to a bark in excitement.

c. 1921, The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, volume 11:

Long before Shap platform showed up around a corner and the two arms on the gradient post drooped in both directions at once, Duchess of Buccleuch's amiable throbbing purr at the stack [funnel, chimney] had become a fierce freight-engine bark, as she resolutely dragged at her enormous load.

1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:

(figuratively) An abrupt loud vocal utterance.


bark

en-noun

bark (countable and uncountable, plural barks)

From Middle English bark, from Old English barc (“bark”), from Old Norse bǫrkr (“tree bark”), from Proto-Germanic *barkuz, probably related to *birkijǭ (“birch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰergo- (compare Latin frāxinus (“ash”), Lithuanian béržas (“birch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰereg- (“to gleam; white”) (compare English bright); akin to Danish bark, Icelandic börkur, Low German borke and Albanian berk (“bast”).

(medicine) Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.

Hard candy made in flat sheets, for instance out of chocolate, peanut butter, toffee or peppermint.


maa

en-verb

maa (third-person singular simple present maas, present participle maaing, simple past and past participle maaed)

maas (present singular third-person)
maaing (participle present)
maaed (participle past)
maaed (past)

[mæ̰ː ~ mæˀæˀæ]

Now it's even worse! The goat maas all the time. And the smell...

1992, Josepha Sherman, A Sampler of Jewish-American Folklore, page 126:

Now the twins started to cry and Malachy clung to Mam, sobbing. The cows mooed, the sheep maaed […]


scold

The noun is from Middle English scold(e), skald(e), first attested in the 12th or 13th century (as scold, scolde, skolde, skald). The verb is from Middle English scolden, first attested in the late 1300s. Most dictionaries derive the verb from the noun and say the noun is probably from Old Norse skald (“poet”) (cognate with Icelandic skáld (“poet, scop”)), as skalds sometimes wrote insulting poems, though another view is that the Norse and English words are cognate to each other and to Old High German skeltan, Old Dutch skeldan, all inherited from Proto-Germanic *skeldaną (“scold”).

A ſclaunderous tunge, a tunge of a ſkolde,
Worketh more miſchiefe than can be tolde;
That, if I wiſt not to be controlde,
Yet ſomwhat to ſay I dare well be bolde,

c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.

How ſome delite for to lye, thycke and threfolde.

“Well, I won’t have it, and that’s enough.” She laughed, for her voice had a little been that of the professional scold.

1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XVIII [Uniform ed., p. 196]

Consider the contrast with the United States, where deficit scolds dominated Beltway discourse in 2010–2011 but never managed to dictate the terms of political debate […]

2015 September 14, Paul Krugman, “Labour's dead centre [print version: International New York Times, 15 September 2015, p. 9]”, in The New York Times:

A person who habitually scolds, in particular a troublesome and angry woman.


urine

urine (nominative singular)
urineet (nominative plural)
urineen (genitive singular)
urinein (genitive plural)
urinetta (partitive singular)
urineita (partitive plural)
urineesse (illative singular)
urineisse (illative plural)
urinees (inessive singular)
urineis (inessive plural)
urineest (elative singular)
urineist (elative plural)
urineelle (allative singular)
urineille (allative plural)
urineel (adessive singular)
urineil (adessive plural)
urineelt (ablative singular)
urineilt (ablative plural)
urineeks (singular translative)
urineiks (plural translative)
urineenna (essive singular)
urineen (essive singular)
urineinna (essive plural)
urinein (essive plural)
urineent (exessive singular)
urineint (exessive plural)


zum

zoom; a humming sound made by an insect's flight


cheep

The short, high-pitched sound made by a small bird.


stridulation

en-noun

stridulation (countable and uncountable, plural stridulations)

1838, from earlier term stridulous; from Latin strīdulus (“giving a shrill sound, creaking”), from strīdō (“utter a shrill or harsh sound; creak, shriek, grate, hiss”).

uder

The Demons were crying now too, a stridulation that rose above the clamor and seemed to pierce the skull.

1994, John Christopher, A Dusk of Demons:

A high-pitched chirping, grating, hissing, or squeaking sound, as male crickets and grasshoppers make by rubbing certain body parts together.

цвърчене

chirping, grating, or squeaking sound made by crickets and grasshoppers


crocio

la-verb

crociō (present infinitive crocīre); fourth conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stem

crociō (canonical)
no passive (canonical)
crocīre (infinitive present)
crociō (active first-person indicative present singular)
crocīs (active indicative present second-person singular)
crocit (active indicative present singular third-person)
crocīmus (active first-person indicative plural present)
crocītis (active indicative plural present second-person)
crociunt (active indicative plural present third-person)
crociēbam (active first-person imperfect indicative singular)
crociēbās (active imperfect indicative second-person singular)
crociēbat (active imperfect indicative singular third-person)
crociēbāmus (active first-person imperfect indicative plural)
crociēbātis (active imperfect indicative plural second-person)
crociēbant (active imperfect indicative plural third-person)
crociam (active first-person future indicative singular)
crociēs (active future indicative second-person singular)
crociet (active future indicative singular third-person)
crociēmus (active first-person future indicative plural)
crociētis (active future indicative plural second-person)
crocient (active future indicative plural third-person)
crociam (active first-person present singular subjunctive)
crociās (active present second-person singular subjunctive)
crociat (active present singular subjunctive third-person)
crociāmus (active first-person plural present subjunctive)
crociātis (active plural present second-person subjunctive)
crociant (active plural present subjunctive third-person)
crocīrem (active first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
crocīrēs (active imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
crocīret (active imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
crocīrēmus (active first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
crocīrētis (active imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
crocīrent (active imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
crocī (active imperative present second-person singular)
crocīte (active imperative plural present second-person)
crocītō (active future imperative second-person singular)
crocītō (active future imperative singular third-person)
crocītōte (active future imperative plural second-person)
crociuntō (active future imperative plural third-person)
crocīre (active infinitive present)
crociēns (active participle present)
crociendī (genitive gerund noun-from-verb)
crociendō (dative gerund noun-from-verb)
crociendum (accusative gerund noun-from-verb)
crociendō (ablative gerund noun-from-verb)

From Proto-Italic *krok-, from imitative Proto-Indo-European *k(V)r-, related to several other Indo-European words such as Lithuanian kriokti and Ancient Greek κρώζω (krṓzō).

onomatopoeic

imitative


hirritus

la-noun

hirrītus m (genitive hirrītūs); fourth declension

hirrītus (canonical masculine)
hirrītūs (genitive)
hirrītus (nominative singular)
hirrītūs (nominative plural)
hirrītūs (genitive singular)
hirrītuum (genitive plural)
hirrītuī (dative singular)
hirrītibus (dative plural)
hirrītum (accusative singular)
hirrītūs (accusative plural)
hirrītū (ablative singular)
hirrītibus (ablative plural)
hirrītus (singular vocative)
hirrītūs (plural vocative)

From hirriō (“I snarl”) + -tus (suffix forming fourth declension action nouns from verbs).


hirrio

la-verb

hirriō (present infinitive hirrīre); fourth conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stem

hirriō (canonical)
no passive (canonical)
hirrīre (infinitive present)
hirriō (active first-person indicative present singular)
hirrīs (active indicative present second-person singular)
hirrit (active indicative present singular third-person)
hirrīmus (active first-person indicative plural present)
hirrītis (active indicative plural present second-person)
hirriunt (active indicative plural present third-person)
hirriēbam (active first-person imperfect indicative singular)
hirriēbās (active imperfect indicative second-person singular)
hirriēbat (active imperfect indicative singular third-person)
hirriēbāmus (active first-person imperfect indicative plural)
hirriēbātis (active imperfect indicative plural second-person)
hirriēbant (active imperfect indicative plural third-person)
hirriam (active first-person future indicative singular)
hirriēs (active future indicative second-person singular)
hirriet (active future indicative singular third-person)
hirriēmus (active first-person future indicative plural)
hirriētis (active future indicative plural second-person)
hirrient (active future indicative plural third-person)
hirriam (active first-person present singular subjunctive)
hirriās (active present second-person singular subjunctive)
hirriat (active present singular subjunctive third-person)
hirriāmus (active first-person plural present subjunctive)
hirriātis (active plural present second-person subjunctive)
hirriant (active plural present subjunctive third-person)
hirrīrem (active first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
hirrīrēs (active imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
hirrīret (active imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
hirrīrēmus (active first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
hirrīrētis (active imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
hirrīrent (active imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
hirrī (active imperative present second-person singular)
hirrīte (active imperative plural present second-person)
hirrītō (active future imperative second-person singular)
hirrītō (active future imperative singular third-person)
hirrītōte (active future imperative plural second-person)
hirriuntō (active future imperative plural third-person)
hirrīre (active infinitive present)
hirriēns (active participle present)
hirriendī (genitive gerund noun-from-verb)
hirriendō (dative gerund noun-from-verb)
hirriendum (accusative gerund noun-from-verb)
hirriendō (ablative gerund noun-from-verb)

onomatopoeic

Imitative


unco

la-verb

uncō (present infinitive uncāre); first conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stem

uncō (canonical)
no passive (canonical)
uncāre (infinitive present)
uncō (active first-person indicative present singular)
uncās (active indicative present second-person singular)
uncat (active indicative present singular third-person)
uncāmus (active first-person indicative plural present)
uncātis (active indicative plural present second-person)
uncant (active indicative plural present third-person)
uncābam (active first-person imperfect indicative singular)
uncābās (active imperfect indicative second-person singular)
uncābat (active imperfect indicative singular third-person)
uncābāmus (active first-person imperfect indicative plural)
uncābātis (active imperfect indicative plural second-person)
uncābant (active imperfect indicative plural third-person)
uncābō (active first-person future indicative singular)
uncābis (active future indicative second-person singular)
uncābit (active future indicative singular third-person)
uncābimus (active first-person future indicative plural)
uncābitis (active future indicative plural second-person)
uncābunt (active future indicative plural third-person)
uncem (active first-person present singular subjunctive)
uncēs (active present second-person singular subjunctive)
uncet (active present singular subjunctive third-person)
uncēmus (active first-person plural present subjunctive)
uncētis (active plural present second-person subjunctive)
uncent (active plural present subjunctive third-person)
uncārem (active first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
uncārēs (active imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
uncāret (active imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
uncārēmus (active first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
uncārētis (active imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
uncārent (active imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
uncā (active imperative present second-person singular)
uncāte (active imperative plural present second-person)
uncātō (active future imperative second-person singular)
uncātō (active future imperative singular third-person)
uncātōte (active future imperative plural second-person)
uncantō (active future imperative plural third-person)
uncāre (active infinitive present)
uncāns (active participle present)
uncandī (genitive gerund noun-from-verb)
uncandō (dative gerund noun-from-verb)
uncandum (accusative gerund noun-from-verb)
uncandō (ablative gerund noun-from-verb)


kot

Kot-kot-kot-kot-kotkodács, minden napra egy tojás! (nursery rhyme)

cluck (imitative of the sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her chicks; can be used repetitively)


bombio

bombiō (present infinitive bombīre); fourth conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stem

bombiō (canonical)
no passive (canonical)
bombīre (infinitive present)
bombiō (active first-person indicative present singular)
bombīs (active indicative present second-person singular)
bombit (active indicative present singular third-person)
bombīmus (active first-person indicative plural present)
bombītis (active indicative plural present second-person)
bombiunt (active indicative plural present third-person)
bombiēbam (active first-person imperfect indicative singular)
bombiēbās (active imperfect indicative second-person singular)
bombiēbat (active imperfect indicative singular third-person)
bombiēbāmus (active first-person imperfect indicative plural)
bombiēbātis (active imperfect indicative plural second-person)
bombiēbant (active imperfect indicative plural third-person)
bombiam (active first-person future indicative singular)
bombiēs (active future indicative second-person singular)
bombiet (active future indicative singular third-person)
bombiēmus (active first-person future indicative plural)
bombiētis (active future indicative plural second-person)
bombient (active future indicative plural third-person)
bombiam (active first-person present singular subjunctive)
bombiās (active present second-person singular subjunctive)
bombiat (active present singular subjunctive third-person)
bombiāmus (active first-person plural present subjunctive)
bombiātis (active plural present second-person subjunctive)
bombiant (active plural present subjunctive third-person)
bombīrem (active first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
bombīrēs (active imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
bombīret (active imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
bombīrēmus (active first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
bombīrētis (active imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
bombīrent (active imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
bombī (active imperative present second-person singular)
bombīte (active imperative plural present second-person)
bombītō (active future imperative second-person singular)
bombītō (active future imperative singular third-person)
bombītōte (active future imperative plural second-person)
bombiuntō (active future imperative plural third-person)
bombīre (active infinitive present)
bombiēns (active participle present)
bombiendī (genitive gerund noun-from-verb)
bombiendō (dative gerund noun-from-verb)
bombiendum (accusative gerund noun-from-verb)
bombiendō (ablative gerund noun-from-verb)

Catalan: bomir, bonir


tata

Possibly borrowed from Philippine Spanish tata (“daddy”), compare tatay.

(archaic) term of address used for one's father

(archaic) respectful term of address used for an older man

(dialectal) term of address used for an uncle


eaw

From the sound. An early print use was in a 1988 instruction booklet for the video game Zelda II; probably used earlier.


birdsong

en-noun

birdsong (countable and uncountable, plural birdsongs)

Vocalisations made by birds, considered collectively.


eek

onomatopoeic

Imitative

Eek! There's a mouse in the bathtub!

Representing a scream or shriek (especially in comic strips and books).

Representing the shrill vocal sound of a mouse, rat, or monkey.


eek

en-verb

eek (third-person singular simple present eeks, present participle eeking, simple past and past participle eeked)

eeks (present singular third-person)
eeking (participle present)
eeked (participle past)
eeked (past)

onomatopoeic

Imitative

She was dangling the mouse by its tail, but as it tried to arch upwards and bite, she started to jig about wildly […] The anglers had watched a beautiful young woman dance naked beneath a full moon to the feverish rhythm of unworldly eeking noises!

2009, Paul Gelder, Yachting Monthly's Further Confessions:

We saw a frog and she eeked in terror again from the sight of it hopping near her.

2011, Isaac E. Washington, The Stars in My Dreams, page 106:

“Sorry, love, they all look the same to me,” said Dad, desperately trying to spot one with a particularly pink nose. “Armitage? ARMITAGE!” called Zoe. All the rats eeked. Every single one of them wanted to escape.
“We’ll just have to set them all free,” said Zoe.

2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

To produce a high-pitched squeal, as in fear or trepidation.


ribbit

The students fell momentarily silent while he finished writing on the board. Then, "Ribbit!"

Used to anonymously and disrespectfully break silence, as in educational or ceremonial settings.


oink

Mom swallowed a spoonful of pudding and looked Daddy straight in the eye. "Oink, oink," she said, to let him know he was being a male chauvinist pig.

"The tub is too small!" "Then, I'll go first and you'll have to wait!" "Chauvinist pig!" "Oink, oink!"

2003, Robert N. Mansfield, Randy Maas, The Assassin: Attack on America:

You are such a male chauvinist oink, oink. You think that you are the only one who can drive a car or fly an airplane.

2005, Alinka Zyrmont, Forbidden Passion:

Drawing attention to male chauvinism (from the term male chauvinist pig).


click

Imitative of the "click" sound; first recorded in the 1500s. Compare Saterland Frisian klikke (“to click”), Middle Dutch clicken (Modern Dutch: klikken (“to click”)), Old High German klecchen (Modern German: klecken, klicken (“to click”)), Danish klikke (“to click”), Swedish klicka (“to click”), Norwegian klikke (“to click”), Norwegian klekke (“to hatch”).

Imitative

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) The act of pressing a button on a computer mouse or similar input device, both as a physical act and a reaction in the software.


nicker

This coat cost me 50 nicker.

Seems? Well, this seems to be a waste of my time. That is 900 nicker in any shop you're lucky enough to find one in. And you're complaining about 200? What school of finance did you study?

1998, Guy Ritchie, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (motion picture), spoken by Tom (Jason Flemyng):


nicker

The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.


nicker

From Middle English niker, from Old English nicor, from Proto-Germanic *nikwis. Cognate with German Nix (“water demon”) and German Nixe (“mermaid”); also related to Old Norse nykr (“water demon”) (see there for further descendants). Doublet of nix.

And in another tale, told at Kemnitz of the Nicker, as he is there called, when he asks the midwife how much he owes her, she answers that she will take no more from him than from other people.

1891, Edwin Sidney Hartland, The Science of Fairy Tales, page 48:

A type of mythological sea creature or sea monster; also, a water sprite; a nix or nixie; a mermaid or merman.


bloop

en-verb

bloop (third-person singular simple present bloops, present participle blooping, simple past and past participle blooped)

bloops (present singular third-person)
blooping (participle present)
blooped (participle past)
blooped (past)

onom

Imitative

The ducks quack,
The birds chirp,
The fish bloop.

2020, Alex K. Bishop, “The Man, a Bench in the Park”, in Nothing Important: Allegorical poems in the pursuit of meaning, Altona, Manitoba: FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 13:

(onomatopoeia, especially of a fish) To blow air bubbles or audibly slosh about in water.

(informal) To produce a low-pitched beeping sound.


bloop

Imitative

Slowly exhale using short, quick bursts through the mouth, making 'bloop' sounds to mimic a fish each time.

2018 August 21, Nicola Harvey, Mindful Little Yogis: Self-Regulation Tools to Empower Kids with Special Needs to Breathe and Relax, London: Singing Dragon, →ISBN, page 51:

(onomatopoeia) The sound of a fish blowing air bubbles in water.

The robot produced a series of beeps and bloops before giving its answer to the problem.

A fiendish yell then followed / Ev'ry salvo's 'bang' and 'bloop'.

1992, Bob Magor, Blood on the Board, page 39:


curr

en-verb

curr (third-person singular simple present currs, present participle curring, simple past and past participle curred)

currs (present singular third-person)
curring (participle present)
curred (participle past)
curred (past)

1798, William Wordsworth, The Idiot Boy, first published in 1798, Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, republished in 1827, The Poetical Works of Wordsworth, 1872, page 53,
The owlets hoot, the owlets curr, / And Johnny's lips they burr, burr, burr,

(archaic, intransitive) To coo like an owl.

(archaic, intransitive) To purr like a cat.


bumble

bumble (third-person singular simple present bumbles, present participle bumbling, simple past and past participle bumbled)

bumbles (present singular third-person)
bumbling (participle present)
bumbled (participle past)
bumbled (past)

* Verb: Frequentative of boom and/or bum, equivalent to bum + -le.
* Noun: From the verb.

(intransitive) To boom, as a Eurasian bittern.


bumble

(UK, Ireland, dialect) The Eurasian bittern.


chuff

en-adj

chuff (comparative more chuff, superlative most chuff)

more chuff (comparative)
most chuff (superlative)

15th century, dialectal, from Middle English chuffe (“a rustic, boor”), in noun sense “stupid fellow”. Adjective sense “surly, displeased” from 1832.

inh

such chuff Fellows , who would not willingly allow their Children any Pleasures

1728, Francis Gentleman, A Trip to the Moon, page 196:

Says Paddy , “the old one, faith, looks very chuff, though, But loves that big blackguard, I mean Lundy snuff, though;

The chuff old Joe to vex has come, The Doctor—who but he?—Parnell, and all the Irish scum, Have noisy vowed to be.

1878 January 24, “The Song of Big Ben”, in Truth, volume 3, page 114:

Neville Custance is a very chuff Boy indeed as I ever saw, seem displeased & cross with every thing - would not eat a bit of Cake when brought to him.

1978, James Woodforde, edited by John Beresford, The Diary of a Country Parson, 1758-1802, page 387:

(UK, dialect) stupid; churlish; loutish.


chuff

en-noun

chuff (countable and uncountable, plural chuffs)

A breathy noise produced by a tiger, similar in function to a cat's purr.


chuff

1520s, in sense “swollen with fat”; circa 1860, British dialect, in sense “pleased”. Possibly related to “coarse, stupid, fat-headed” sense (see etymology 1 above). Or, perhaps a euphemistic alteration of fuck or another expletive.


boo

en-verb

boo (third-person singular simple present boos, present participle booing, simple past and past participle booed)

boos (present singular third-person)
booing (participle present)
booed (participle past)
booed (past)

From earlier (15c.) boh, coined to create a loud and startling sound. Compare Middle English bus! (“bang!”, interjection), Latin boō (“cry aloud, roar, shout”, verb), Ancient Greek βοάω (boáō, “shout”, verb).

onomatopoeic

startling

noncog

When he took the podium, the crowd booed.

Nobody booed and nobody clapped

Substitute Charlie Austin scored seven minutes into his Southampton debut as a lacklustre Manchester United were booed off at Old Trafford.

2016 January 23, Phil Dakwes, “Man Utd 0–1 Southampton”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), BBC Sport:

(intransitive) To shout extended boos derisively.

The protesters loudly booed the visiting senator.

(transitive) To shout extended boos at, as a form of derision.


boo

Of unknown origin. First appears c. 1959 in Esquire Magazine.

[…] sexually promiscuous girl who smoked boo all day and socialized with junkies when she wasn't busy banging away in bed […]

1967, George E. Andrews, Simon Vinkenoog, The Book of Grass: An Anthology on Indian Hemp, page 213:

Like I have smoked boo, drunk whiskey, and shot dope, and I was going through all three bags at once.

1984, Raphael S. Ezekiel, Voices from the corner: poverty and racism in the inner city, page 56:

Grandpa doesn't want Grandma and their kids and grandkids to know that he had to get penicillin shots all the time, or that he smoked boo (marijuana) on a daily basis, or that he dealt in the black market, or that he had yobos (purchased live-in sex slaves).

2019, Ron Cook, On Guard in the General's Chorus, page 2:


boo

The cow's tether is put about the neck of the individual who has lost the cow, and he must go about booing like a cow till atonement is made.

1850, “The Missionary Herald”, in The Baptist Magazine, volume 42:

In the north of England people very often speak about the "oxen booing" (not lowing)

1894, Emily Seytter, “Barnyard Voices”, in Our Animal Friends: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 21:

I remember being in the Great Nut Walk and hearing Old Nettle 'booing' like a cow outside .

1987, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl:

(now rare, Northern England, intransitive) To make a sound characteristic of cattle; to moo.


boo

(transitive, intransitive, childish, US) To boo-boo, to poo: to defecate.


mew

en-verb

mew (third-person singular simple present mews, present participle mewing, simple past and past participle mewed)

mews (present singular third-person)
mewing (participle present)
mewed (participle past)
mewed (past)

From Middle English mewen; onomatopoeic.

(of a cat, especially of a kitten) To meow.


clang

1570, of imitative origin; Compare also Saterland Frisian Kloang, West Frisian klank, Dutch klank, German Klang (from klingen), Danish and Swedish klang, Latin clangere.

The cry of some birds, including the crane and the goose.


rut

Csak az eperfa alatt sétálgató, felborzolt tollú pulyka kiabálta: rut, rut.

Rút! Rút! Rút! / Föl is, le is út: / mérges Pulyka, te szereted / csak a háborút!

1954, Lőrinc Szabó, Falusi hangverseny (Village concert), archived from the original on 2018-10-19:

Gobble! Gobble! Gobble! / Go away: / angry Turkey, only you like / war!

Pulyka mondja: rut, rut, rut! / Aki kapzsi, mindig rút!

2018 July 22, Csanádi Imre, Hangverseny (Concert):

gobble (representation of the sound of a turkey; can be used repetitively)


gala

head

gala (present gal, preterite gol, supine galit, imperative gal)

gal (present)
gol (preterite)
galit (supine)
gal (imperative)
gala (active infinitive)
galit (active supine)
gal (active imperative)
galen (active archaic imperative plural)
gal (active indicative present)
gol (active indicative past)
gala (active archaic indicative plural present)
golo (active archaic indicative past plural)
gale (active dated present subjunctive)
gole (active dated past subjunctive)
galande (participle present)
galen (participle past)

From Old Swedish gala, from Old Norse gala, from Proto-Germanic *galaną.

förrän hanen har galit ... Och i detsamma gol hanen ... Förrän hanen gal

before the cock crow ... And immediately the cock crew ... Before the cock crow (Matthew 26:34, 74, 75)

to crow; to make a sound characteristic of a rooster


chirp

en-verb

chirp (third-person singular simple present chirps, present participle chirping, simple past and past participle chirped)

chirps (present singular third-person)
chirping (participle present)
chirped (participle past)
chirped (past)

From Middle English *chirpen (attested only in the derivative Middle English chirpinge, cyrpynge, chyrypynge (“chirping”). Compare Middle English chirken and chirmen. More at chirk, chirm. Compare also Middle English chirten (“to smack, chirrup”).

noncog

"Well, I suppose you didn't come out of the egg either before you could chirp," said the woman who was on the egg.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 95:

(intransitive) To make a short, sharp, cheerful note, as of small birds or crickets; to chitter; to twitter.

(transitive, obsolete) To cheer up; to make (someone) happier.

(Canada) To speak rapid insulting comical banter back and forth.

(UK, slang, obsolete) To inform on someone; snitch.


buzz

en-noun

buzz (countable and uncountable, plural buzzes)

From Middle English *bussen, of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Middle English bunning (“buzzing”), Middle English hossing (“buzzing”), Middle English bissen (“to hush”).


hoot

en-verb

hoot (third-person singular simple present hoots, present participle hooting, simple past and past participle hooted)

hoots (present singular third-person)
hooting (participle present)
hooted (participle past)
hooted (past)

From Middle English houten, huten, hoten, of North Germanic origin, from or related to Old Swedish huta (“to cast out in contempt”), related to Middle High German hiuzen, hūzen (“to call to pursuit”), Swedish hut! (“begone!”, interjection), Dutch hui (“ho, hallo”), Danish huj (“ho, hallo”).

der

Matrons and girls shall hoot at thee no more,

1711, John Dryden, “Satire IX”, in Dryden’s Juvenal:


growl

From Middle English groulen, grollen, gurlen (“of the bowels: to growl, rumble”), either possibly from Old French groler (variant of croler (“to be agitated, shake”)), grouler, grouller (“to growl, grumble”), from Frankish *grullen, *gruljan or from Old English gryllan, both from Proto-Germanic *gruljaną (“to make a sound; to growl, grumble, rumble”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to make a noise; to mumble, murmur; to rattle; to grind; to rub, stroke”), probably ultimately imitative. The word is cognate with Middle Dutch grollen (“to make a noise; to croak, grumble, murmur; to be angry”) (modern Dutch grollen (“to grumble”)), German grollen (“to rumble; to be angry, bear ill will”), Old English grillan, griellan (“to provoke, offend; to gnash the teeth”). Compare grill.
The noun is derived from the verb.


growl

en-verb

growl (third-person singular simple present growls, present participle growling, simple past and past participle growled)

growls (present singular third-person)
growling (participle present)
growled (participle past)
growled (past)

The dog growled at me as I walked past.

[T]here are Wolf-Whelps in Palaces, and Governments, as well as in Cottages, and Forreſts. […] They go out however, as there is Occaſion, and Hunt and Growle for Company; but at the ſame time, they give the Sign out of their Maſters hand, hold Intelligence with the Enemy; and Make uſe of their Power and Credit to Worry Honeſter Men them Themſelves.

1692, Roger L’Estrange, “[The Fables of Æsop, &c.] Fab[le] CLV. A Shepherd and a Wolves Whelp [Reflexion].”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 140:

Let bears and lions growl and fight, / Let bears and lions growl and fight, / For 'tis their nature too, / For 'tis their nature too.

1806, [Isaac] Watts, B. Jacobs [i.e., Benjamin Jacob], “Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite. Song 16.”, in Dr. Watts’ Divine & Moral Songs […], London: Printed for & sold by the author, […], →OCLC, page 18:

"All's for the worst" is a very common motto, and under its influence there are thousands who growl when they go to bed, and growl still louder when they get up; who growl at their breakfast, who growl at their dinner, who growl at their supper, and who growl between meals. Discontent is written in every feature of their visage; […]

1841, “Fydget Fyxington”, in Charles Dickens, editor, The Pic Nic Papers. […] (Collection of Ancient and Modern British Authors; CCCXXX), Paris: Baudry’s European Library, […]; and Stassin et Xavier, […], →OCLC, page 225:

Lord Derby growled,—growling especially at Mr. [William Ewart] Gladstone,—and the Archbishop of Canterbury growled, and the Bishop of Oxford growled, and the Marquis of Bath (a good Conservative) growled, but he (the Marquis) growled at the Government rather than at the Bill.

1868 April 25, The Spectator: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature, Theology, and Art, volume 41, number 2078, London: John Campbell, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 482, column 2:

April woke in darkness to the sound of Baron growling. Not that she could hear the dog, exactly. He was far out in the backyard at the edge of the woods. […] April waited for the dog to settle down. Instead, his growling grew deeper.

2016, Ted Sanders, “April”, in The Harp and the Ravenvine (The Keepers; 2), New York, N.Y.: Harper, →ISBN:

(intransitive) To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.


howl

From Middle English howlen, houlen, from Old English *hūlian, from Proto-West Germanic *hūilōn, from Proto-Germanic *hūwilōną, *hiuwilōną (“to howl”), from Proto-Indo-European *kū-, *kew- (“to howl, scream”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian huulje (“to howl”), Dutch huilen (“to howl”), Romanian a hăuli (“to howl”), Old French ouler, German Low German hulen (“to howl”), German heulen (“to howl”), Danish hyle (“to howl”), Swedish yla (“to scream, yell”), Northern Luri آلٛیر (āłir, “howl”).

[T]he fox was out on love-adventures, abused his rivals, and uttered scoffing screams and howls.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 117:

All at once the cat thrust her paw inside the ring again, but the tailor was quick as lightning and chopped the paw off. The cats set up a terrible howl, and away they rushed through the door as fast as they could.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 159:

Dan was beginning to feel very depressed when suddenly the eerie howl of a dingo rang out[.]

1943, H. Lorna Bingham, The Lost Tribe, Sydney: Winn and Co., page 13, column 2:

The protracted, mournful cry of a dog, wolf or other canid; also of other animals.

عُوَاء

protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf

The howl of the wind

A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail.


howl

howl (third-person singular simple present howls, present participle howling, simple past and past participle howled)

howls (present singular third-person)
howling (participle present)
howled (participle past)
howled (past)

who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl

Methought a legion of foul fiends / Environ'd me about, and howled in my ears.

c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv]:

VVhen ominus ſignes to ſhew themſelues began, / That novv at hand this monſtrous birth fore-ran: / About at noone flew the affrighted Ovvle, / And dogs in corners ſet them dovvne to hovvle: […]

1627, Michaell Drayton [i.e., Michael Drayton], “The Moone-calfe”, in The Battaile of Agincourt. […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for VVilliam Lee, […], published 1631, →OCLC, page 223:

To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.

عَوَى

to utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do

Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is at hand.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 13:6:

To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail.

أَنَّ

to utter a sound expressive of pain or distress

They howled with laughter at the prank.

Wild howl'd the wind the forest glades along, / And oft the owl renew'd her dismal song; […]

1809, Walter Scott, “[Fragments, […].] The Poacher”, in The Poetical Works of Walter Scott, Esq. […], volume XI, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Company] for Arch[ibald] Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and John Murray, published 1820, →OCLC, page 180:

To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast.


ڈکار

ڈَکار (canonical)
ḍakār (romanization)
डकार (Hindi)
ڈکار (direct singular)
ڈکاریں (direct plural)
ڈکار (oblique singular)
ڈکاروں (oblique plural)
ڈکار (singular vocative)
ڈکارو (plural vocative)

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit *𑀟𑀓𑁆𑀓𑀸𑀭 (*ḍakkāra), from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀟𑀓𑁆𑀓𑀸𑀭 (*ḍakkāra). Cognate with Punjabi ਡਕਾਰ (ḍakār) / ڈکار (ḍakār), Nepali डकार (ḍakār), Marathi ढेकर (ḍhekar), डकार (ḍakār), Kashmiri ڈاکُر (ḍākur).


vau

woof (the sound a dog makes while barking)


vau

Apparently of onomatopoeic (imitative) origin.

vau, vau! Krančelis kaukdams kliedza

woof! woof! Krančelis (= dog) cried, howling


aw

(informal, colloquial) ouch (an expression of one's own physical pain)


мяу

head

мя́у • (mjáu)

ко́шка мяу́кает


pretty Polly

Polly is a name traditionally given to a pet parrot.

Pretty Polly! Pretty Polly! Squawk! 'Allo! Who's a pretty boy! Squawk! 'Allo! 'Allo!

A phrase traditionally said to parrots, and that parrots are traditionally taught to speak.


zirlare

it-verb

zirlàre (first-person singular present zìrlo, first-person singular past historic zirlài, past participle zirlàto, auxiliary avére)

zirlàre (canonical)
zìrlo (first-person present singular)
zirlài (first-person historic past singular)
zirlàto (participle past)
avére (auxiliary)
zirlàre (infinitive)
avére (auxiliary)
zirlàndo (gerund)
zirlànte (participle present)
zirlàto (participle past)
zìrlo (first-person indicative present singular)
zìrli (indicative present second-person singular)
zìrla (indicative present singular third-person)
zirliàmo (first-person indicative plural present)
zirlàte (indicative plural present second-person)
zìrlano (indicative plural present third-person)
zirlàvo (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
zirlàvi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
zirlàva (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
zirlavàmo (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
zirlavàte (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
zirlàvano (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
zirlài (first-person historic indicative past singular)
zirlàsti (historic indicative past second-person singular)
zirlò (historic indicative past singular third-person)
zirlàmmo (first-person historic indicative past plural)
zirlàste (historic indicative past plural second-person)
zirlàrono (historic indicative past plural third-person)
zirlerò (first-person future indicative singular)
zirlerài (future indicative second-person singular)
zirlerà (future indicative singular third-person)
zirlerémo (first-person future indicative plural)
zirleréte (future indicative plural second-person)
zirlerànno (future indicative plural third-person)
zirlerèi (conditional first-person present singular)
zirlerésti (conditional present second-person singular)
zirlerèbbe (conditional present singular third-person)
zirlerébbe (conditional present singular third-person)
zirlerémmo (conditional first-person plural present)
zirleréste (conditional plural present second-person)
zirlerèbbero (conditional plural present third-person)
zirlerébbero (conditional plural present third-person)
zìrli (first-person present singular subjunctive)
zìrli (present second-person singular subjunctive)
zìrli (present singular subjunctive third-person)
zirliàmo (first-person plural present subjunctive)
zirliàte (plural present second-person subjunctive)
zìrlino (plural present subjunctive third-person)
zirlàssi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
zirlàssi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
zirlàsse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
zirlàssimo (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
zirlàste (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
zirlàssero (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
zìrla (imperative second-person singular)
zìrli (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
zirliàmo (first-person imperative plural)
zirlàte (imperative plural second-person)
zìrlino (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
zirlàre (imperative negative second-person singular)
zìrli (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
zirliàmo (first-person imperative negative plural)
zirlàte (imperative negative plural second-person)
zìrlino (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)


abbaiare

abbaiàre (first-person singular present abbàio, first-person singular past historic abbaiài, past participle abbaiàto, auxiliary avére)

abbaiàre (canonical)
abbàio (first-person present singular)
abbaiài (first-person historic past singular)
abbaiàto (participle past)
avére (auxiliary)
abbaiàre (infinitive)
avére (auxiliary)
abbaiàndo (gerund)
abbaiànte (participle present)
abbaiàto (participle past)
abbàio (first-person indicative present singular)
abbài (indicative present second-person singular)
abbàia (indicative present singular third-person)
abbaiàmo (first-person indicative plural present)
abbaiàte (indicative plural present second-person)
abbàiano (indicative plural present third-person)
abbaiàvo (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
abbaiàvi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
abbaiàva (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
abbaiavàmo (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
abbaiavàte (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
abbaiàvano (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
abbaiài (first-person historic indicative past singular)
abbaiàsti (historic indicative past second-person singular)
abbaiò (historic indicative past singular third-person)
abbaiàmmo (first-person historic indicative past plural)
abbaiàste (historic indicative past plural second-person)
abbaiàrono (historic indicative past plural third-person)
abbaierò (first-person future indicative singular)
abbaierài (future indicative second-person singular)
abbaierà (future indicative singular third-person)
abbaierémo (first-person future indicative plural)
abbaieréte (future indicative plural second-person)
abbaierànno (future indicative plural third-person)
abbaierèi (conditional first-person present singular)
abbaierésti (conditional present second-person singular)
abbaierèbbe (conditional present singular third-person)
abbaierébbe (conditional present singular third-person)
abbaierémmo (conditional first-person plural present)
abbaieréste (conditional plural present second-person)
abbaierèbbero (conditional plural present third-person)
abbaierébbero (conditional plural present third-person)
abbài (first-person present singular subjunctive)
abbài (present second-person singular subjunctive)
abbài (present singular subjunctive third-person)
abbaiàmo (first-person plural present subjunctive)
abbaiàte (plural present second-person subjunctive)
abbàino (plural present subjunctive third-person)
abbaiàssi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
abbaiàssi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
abbaiàsse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
abbaiàssimo (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
abbaiàste (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
abbaiàssero (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
abbàia (imperative second-person singular)
abbài (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
abbaiàmo (first-person imperative plural)
abbaiàte (imperative plural second-person)
abbàino (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
abbaiàre (imperative negative second-person singular)
abbài (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
abbaiàmo (first-person imperative negative plural)
abbaiàte (imperative negative plural second-person)
abbàino (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)

Of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Latin baubor, Dalmatian bajur and French aboyer.

onomatopoeic

onomatopoeic

Poscia che io […] ebbi più tosto abbajato che detto queste cose, ella con piacevole viso, e niente per li miei lamenti alteratasi, disse: […]

1551, Benedetto Varchi, transl., Della consolazione della filosofia [The Consolation of Philosophy], translation of De consolatione philosophiae by Boethius, published 1832, page 24:

After I had barked, rather than said, this, she, with a serene face, not at all upset at my lamentations, said: […]

(by extension, figurative) to yell, to shout


hum

From Middle English hummen (“to hum, buzz, drone, make a murmuring sound to cover embarrassment”); akin to Dutch hommelen (“to bumble, buzz”), dialectal Dutch hommen (“to buzz, hum”), Middle High German hummen (“to hum”), probably ultimately of imitative origin.

onomatopoeic

imitative

you do provide me hum enough , And lour to bouse with

c. 1622, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger [et al.?], “Beggars Bush”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):


hum

en-verb

hum (third-person singular simple present hums, present participle humming, simple past and past participle hummed)

hums (present singular third-person)
humming (participle present)
hummed (participle past)
hummed (past)

onomatopoeic

imitative

The leaves of the foreſt were loaded with manna, pure amber dropped from every bough, honey diſtilled from the rifted rock, and the humming bee, drunk with joy, ſtrayed from flower to flower, forgetful of his burſting cells.

1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iv:

A slight gloom fell upon the table. Jacob was helping himself to jam; the postman was talking to Rebecca in the kitchen; there was a bee humming at the yellow flower which nodded at the open window.

1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 2, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:

(intransitive) To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly.

бръмча

to drone like certain insects naturally do in motion

(intransitive) To produce low sounds which blend continuously

мънкам

to produce low sounds which blend continuously


snicker

en-verb

snicker (third-person singular simple present snickers, present participle snickering, simple past and past participle snickered)

snickers (present singular third-person)
snickering (participle present)
snickered (participle past)
snickered (past)

US variant of the British snigger, possibly of onomatopoeic origin, similar to Dutch snikken (“to gasp; sob”). The noun is first recorded 1836, from the verb. Compare also Scottish smicker (“to smile or laugh in a sniggering or leery way, smirk”). More at smicker.


aboiement

Charlotte Arrigoni, Loïc Farge, ""Fetch!", une application pour être incollable sur les chiens", RTL, February 18 2016.
Il est aussi possible de prendre une photographie accompagnée de l’aboiement d’un chien ou de chercher un modèle dans sa bibliothèque.

It is also possible to take a picture together with the bark of a dog or to search for an example in its library.


hiss

hiss (third-person singular simple present hisses, present participle hissing, simple past and past participle hissed)

hisses (present singular third-person)
hissing (participle present)
hissed (participle past)
hissed (past)

From Middle English hissen, probably of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Middle Dutch hissen, hisschen (“to chase away, shoo”), Middle Low German hissen (“to chase, hound, incite”).

cog

"Are you quite sure of it," she hissed into his ear, "Mr Fang, Junior?"

1881, Elim Henry D'Avigdor, Across Country, Bradbury, Agnew:

"Oh please," she said, "don't let him see us!" I wouldn't let her push me away. "Stop!" she hissed. "He'll see us!"

1968, James A. Emanuel, Theodore L. Gross, Dark symphony, →ISBN:

(transitive) To whisper, especially angrily or urgently.


boji

eo-head

boji (present bojas, past bojis, future bojos, conditional bojus, volitive boju)

bojas (present)
bojis (past)
bojos (future)
bojus (conditional)
boju (volitive)
bojas (present)
bojis (past)
bojos (future)
bojanta (active participle present singular)
bojantaj (active participle plural present)
bojinta (active participle past singular)
bojintaj (active participle past plural)
bojonta (active future participle singular)
bojontaj (active future participle plural)
bojantan (accusative active participle present singular)
bojantajn (accusative active participle plural present)
bojintan (accusative active participle past singular)
bojintajn (accusative active participle past plural)
bojontan (accusative active future participle singular)
bojontajn (accusative active future participle plural)
bojanto (active noun-from-verb participle present singular)
bojantoj (active noun-from-verb participle plural present)
bojinto (active noun-from-verb participle past singular)
bojintoj (active noun-from-verb participle past plural)
bojonto (active future noun-from-verb participle singular)
bojontoj (active future noun-from-verb participle plural)
bojanton (accusative active noun-from-verb participle present singular)
bojantojn (accusative active noun-from-verb participle plural present)
bojinton (accusative active noun-from-verb participle past singular)
bojintojn (accusative active noun-from-verb participle past plural)
bojonton (accusative active future noun-from-verb participle singular)
bojontojn (accusative active future noun-from-verb participle plural)
bojante (active adverbial participle present)
bojinte (active adverbial participle past)
bojonte (active adverbial future participle)
boji (infinitive)
boju (imperative)
bojus (conditional)

From French aboyer, of onomatopoeic origin.

onomatopoeic

onomatopoeic


bleki

eo-head

bleki (present blekas, past blekis, future blekos, conditional blekus, volitive bleku)

blekas (present)
blekis (past)
blekos (future)
blekus (conditional)
bleku (volitive)
blekas (present)
blekis (past)
blekos (future)
blekanta (active participle present singular)
blekantaj (active participle plural present)
blekinta (active participle past singular)
blekintaj (active participle past plural)
blekonta (active future participle singular)
blekontaj (active future participle plural)
blekantan (accusative active participle present singular)
blekantajn (accusative active participle plural present)
blekintan (accusative active participle past singular)
blekintajn (accusative active participle past plural)
blekontan (accusative active future participle singular)
blekontajn (accusative active future participle plural)
blekanto (active noun-from-verb participle present singular)
blekantoj (active noun-from-verb participle plural present)
blekinto (active noun-from-verb participle past singular)
blekintoj (active noun-from-verb participle past plural)
blekonto (active future noun-from-verb participle singular)
blekontoj (active future noun-from-verb participle plural)
blekanton (accusative active noun-from-verb participle present singular)
blekantojn (accusative active noun-from-verb participle plural present)
blekinton (accusative active noun-from-verb participle past singular)
blekintojn (accusative active noun-from-verb participle past plural)
blekonton (accusative active future noun-from-verb participle singular)
blekontojn (accusative active future noun-from-verb participle plural)
blekante (active adverbial participle present)
blekinte (active adverbial participle past)
blekonte (active adverbial future participle)
bleki (infinitive)
bleku (imperative)
blekus (conditional)

Possibly from German blöken or Yiddish בלעקען (bleken, “bleat”).


woof

en-verb

woof (third-person singular simple present woofs, present participle woofing, simple past and past participle woofed)

woofs (present singular third-person)
woofing (participle present)
woofed (participle past)
woofed (past)

The interjection and noun are onomatopoeic. Interjection sense 2 (“used to express strong physical attraction for someone”) probably alludes to the eager barking of a dog.
The verb is probably derived from the interjection and the noun. Verb sense 1.2 (“to eat (food) voraciously”) may be influenced by or, alternatively, derived from wolf (“to eat (food) voraciously, devour, gobble”).

[N]othing makes me feel better than to see my dog's woofing down their food.

2007 June 5, Patricia O’Grady, “Feeding a Homemade Diet”, in Woofing It Down: The Quick & Easy Guide to Making Healthy Dog Food at Home, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 23:

The dog doesn't bark, it just stares at Tom. Tom pulls out the steaks. […] Tom throws them over and the dog woofs them down.

2020, Ian Horan, “The Return of Tom Fuller”, in Psychotic Episodes: Another Collection of Crazy Stories, [Morrisville, N.C.: Lulu.com], →ISBN, page 64:

(originally British, Royal Air Force slang, informal) To eat (food) voraciously; to devour, to gobble, to wolf.


squeal

Inherited from Middle English squelen, probably from Old Norse skvala (“to squeal, bawl”), from Proto-Germanic *skwel- (“to chatter, babble, scream”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *skel-, from *kelh₁- (“to ring, resound, cry”). Compare Old Norse skval (“a squeal”, noun), Swedish skvallra (“to babble, chatter, tell on”).

cog

A high-pitched sound, such as the scream of a child or a female person, or noisy worn-down brake pads.


whoop

From Middle English whopen, whowpen, howpen, houpen (“to whoop, cry out”), partially from Old French houper, hopper, houpper (“to shout”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwōpan, from Proto-Germanic *hwōpaną (“to boast, threaten”) (compare Gothic 𐍈𐍉𐍀𐌰𐌽 (ƕōpan, “to boast”), Old English hwōpan (“to threaten”)); and partially from Middle English wop (“weeping, lamentation”), from Old English wōp (“cry, outcry, shrieking, weeping, lamentation”), from Proto-West Germanic *wōp, from Proto-Germanic *wōpaz (“shout, cry, wail”) (compare Old Norse ópa (“to cry, scream, shout”), Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐍀𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wōpjan, “to cry out”)).

inh

[A] great whoop of victory sounded as finally they carried the fish up the beach.

1983, The Fisherman Who Laughed, page 30:

A gasp, characteristic of whooping cough.

магарешка кашлица

The key to jamming through the whoops is to keep your weight to the back of the quad […] and keep the front wheels high […]

2006, Steve Casper, ATVs: Everything You Need to Know, page 104:

The “98 MPH” sign used to be on a set of particularly vicious whoops at one of John's favorite racetracks.

2009, Lee Klancher, Kevin Cameron, Motorcycle Dream Garages, page 184:


whoop

en-verb

whoop (third-person singular simple present whoops, present participle whooping, simple past and past participle whooped)

whoops (present singular third-person)
whooping (participle present)
whooped (participle past)
whooped (past)

I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough.


gobble

From Middle English gobben (“to drink or swallow greedily”), of uncertain origin + -le (frequentative suffix). Middle English gobben is perhaps an alteration of Middle English globben (“to gulp down”), related to English gulpen (“to gulp”). However, compare also French gober.

der

Nowadays, he was lucky if his mam's auld drinking cronies gave him a gobble.

(Scotland, slang, vulgar) Fellatio; a blowjob.


meu

(historical) The second minister of the Kingdom of Dahomey.


yelp

From Middle English ȝelp, yelp, from Old English ġielp (“boasting, arrogance, pride”), from Proto-West Germanic *gelp, from Proto-Germanic *gelpą (“boasting”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to shout”).

inh

A type of emergency vehicle siren sounding quicker and more intense than the wail.


yiff

en-noun

yiff (usually uncountable, plural yiffs)

Yiff was part of a range of onomatopoeic words from a pseudo-language called Foxish used by the furry role-playing community, ostensibly created by a user named LittleFox or Foxen around 1990. Other terms used by this community included yip, yerf, yaff, yarf, growf, and growlf. Yiff originally meant yes or an exuberant hello. According to LittleFox, the sexual connotations of yiff were influenced by yipp (derived from yip), which originally held these sexual connotations. By 1992, yiff had been assigned a meaning of a sexual proposition, and in modern use within the furry subculture, yiff exclusively refers either to sex between anthropomorphic animals, or pornographic depictions thereof.

"FurryMuck yiffs are like real-life yiffs - there is a time and place for everything." — http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.fan.furry/msg/4e094a46fba477cd

(slang, informal) Sex, especially between furries (fictional anthropomorphic animal characters, and/or members of the community surrounding their celebration).

Do you draw yiff?

(slang, informal) Pornography of or involving furries.