Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal A locomotive train.
Wiktionary
- n. childish The sound made by a steam locomotive.
- n. childish A railway locomotive.
- n. childish A railway train. (Also called a choo-choo train)
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Baby talk a train or a locomotive; -- a child's word.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a child's word for locomotive
Etymologies
- From baby-talk imitation of the sound of a locomotive whistle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But at least pronounce them with the "h" sound rather than the "ch" sound as in Cheney or choo-choo.”
The Huffington Post: Rabbi Jason Miller: Michele Bachmann's Choot-spa Moment
“Mango-fried pawpaws reminded Jones of Africa -- of choo-choo trains, black nationalists, and wounded lions twitching in the bush.”
“Visions were conjured of the back yard of 10 Downing Street... the two Brown toddlers playing choo-choo trains with the two Murdoch boys some thirty years older all four boys in short trousers -- while daddies Rupert and Gordon sat enjoying a glass of Australian Chardonnay and discussing details of Britain's debt crisis.”
The Huffington Post: Martin Lewis: A Big Pile of Murdoch: The Ultimate Legacy of Rupert Merde...
“At eight the next morning, Johnnie put her on what looked like an old-fashioned toy choo-choo train, known as the SEAC Special, which the Americans affectionately called the “Toonerville Trolley.””
“Now, Goldrick says, TUGs decorated like trains — even programmed to say "choo-choo" — do the heavy lifting, so food service workers can interact more with patients and their families.”
“So does the choo-choo train he gets to ride in when it pulls up!”
“And if that is not enough, there are tiny choo-choo trains running in all direction on the floor, further reinforcing the phantasmagorical sense of the whole enterprise.”
The Huffington Post: Edward Goldman: It Sure Isn't Pretty, but Boy is it Beautiful
“And it is no secret that the City of Portland loves choo-choo trains too.”
“So ... that's why the Sellwood Bridge is going to fall in the river and we're going to build a new choo-choo and bike bridge.”
“It is no secret that Metro loves choo-choo trains.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘choo-choo’.
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Reduples
Go for it, brothers and sisters! I personally have been suffering long for lack of an open reduplicatives list
happy clappy, bribble-brabble, diddle-daddle, hugger-mugger, kikiriki, Bora-Bora, mahi-mahi, jingle-jangle, knick-knack paddy..., chit-chat, bon-bon, clapperclaw and 292 more...
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sound (loud)
words for loud sounds
( open list, descriptive, randomness )
also see:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopo...crash, thud, bump, thump, boom, smash, explode, roar, scream, screech, short, yell and 168 more...
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Hyphenated Repeats
Exactly reduplicated words connected by a hyphen.
aye-aye, cleek-cleek, arc-arc, killy-killy, dum-dum, tom-tom, argon-argon, carbon-carbon, win-win, lose-lose, bye-bye, choo-choo and 113 more...
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EN - baby talk
neigh-neigh, super-duper, mumbo-jumbo, silly-billy, okey-dokey, topsy-turvy, binkie-winkie, ba-ba, bot-bot, pom-pom, kaka, aye-aye and 84 more...
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Onomatopoetics
Words formed in imitation of a natural sound.
bumble-bee, rat-a-tat, blurt, clink, chickadee, rub-a-dub, chirr, chug, keck, flim-flam, brekekekex, thunk and 94 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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Andre's list
porch, tantrum, temper tantrum, act up, pushchair, fussy eater, laps, sit on a lap, stacking blocks, pull toy, waddle, cranky and 46 more...
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words that make me uncomfortable
honky tonk, puberty, tidy, retch, rockabilly, hillbilly, glitch, hanky panky, toot, choo-choo, cuckold, giblet and 6 more...
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