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Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The characteristic grunting noise of a hog.
Wiktionary
- interj. Representing the sound made by a pig.
- interj. Drawing attention to male chauvinism (from the term male chauvinist pig).
- n. The sound made by a pig, or an imitation thereof.
- v. intransitive Of a pig or in imitation thereof, to make its characteristic sound.
WordNet 3.0
- v. utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs
- n. the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs
Etymologies
- Imitative of the sound. (Wiktionary)
- Imitative. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I bet it will taqke the "oink" out of a big hog, too!”
“They quickly put an apple in his mouth and told him to say "oink" as they examined his digestive system.”
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“I love that they had to write "oink" next to the pig so that we'd know what it was.”
“Additionally, onomatopoeia can change radically from one language to the next: English-speakers would say that pigs go "oink", whereas to the Japanese, they go buu.”
“There's an "oink" word that I remember from childhood, but it is not shown in the Urban Dictionary as having the meaning we used for it, so I'm not going to tell you which one it was or what it meant to us.”
“The in-service support portion of the deal will be the subject of further discussions check the "oink" at the end of the post, said one source familiar with the agreement.”
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“I laughed out loud at Nora in the "oink" hat since it's basically a staple of our State Fair.”
“Hood was not sure their pet name "oink" would work for the new technology.”
“Your Fortean Londoner has actually enjoyed some lovely evening walks and picnics there but just in case you do find yourself in Green Park at night and you're sleepy, busking, a bit low, arguing with a male companion or hear a voice, music, evil laughter or a sinister 'oink' coming from a tree just take care, ok?”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘oink’.
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Onomatopoetic
words (seemingly) formed in imitation of a natural sound
plash, guff, woof, splash, crash, pow, crack, bang, whoosh, whizz, whallop, fizz and 116 more...
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sound (quiet)
words for quiet sounds
( randomness, descriptive )sigh, murmur, whisper, whir, rustle, patter, hum, snap, hiss(sss), crackle, bleat, peep and 185 more...
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On with their heads!
Words that make other words with the addition of one letter at the beginning. The resulting words are tagged "behead".
men, his, yes, any, iota, limb, aged, laid, land, lead, read, word and 327 more...
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Swine
For more aporkalyptic fun, see madmouth's Everything's better with a pig in it.
For "references to the Dursleys in Wizard People, Dear Reader, Brad Neely's cosmos-shattering voiceover ...swine, pig, hog, boar, pork, pork bellies, hog cholera, swineherd, pigsty, swine flu, oink, pig in a blanket and 188 more...
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Animal voices
wuff, snort, chirp, baa, moo, meow, oink, bark, woof, grr, purr, hiss and 24 more...
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WORDNIK - words found in "Wordnik"
kino, din, dink, dirk, do, don, dor, dork, dow, down, drink, drown and 54 more...
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American Onomatopoeia
A neat list of sound effects that come in handy when you try to describe how Adam West is beating up Superman.
meow, roar, oink, tik tok, zap, boom, pow, bam, whaam, biff, crunch, whack and 5 more...
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Grunts, Sounds, Calls
Aah, achoo, ack, ah, aha, ahem, ah-ha, aw, baa, bah, blah, boo and 64 more...
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What's That Pokémon Name?
Words used to create the names of Pokémon, which are usually portmanteaux.
bulb, dinosaur, ivy, venus, char, salamander, squirt, turtle, blast, tortoise, water, caterpillar and 525 more...
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AbraxasZugzwang's Words
atavism, abraxas, sisyphean, frust, fetus-in-fetu, arhythmically, queef, epidemiology, abecedarian, troglodyte, chiaroscuro, philology and 631 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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Animal Sounds
with sound effects.
screech, hiss, growl, hum, buzz, chirrup, chirp, tweet, birdsong, whistle, bleat, meow and 30 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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Onomatopoeia
Words that imitate sounds.
bam, bamf, bang, boom, snikt, ping, plink, plonk, boing, whoosh, kaboom, crash and 68 more...
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zoe's Words
oink, piglet, puffball, sleepy, zeitgeist, lickety-split, noodle, caffeine, porridge, epitome, snowy, kooky and 30 more...
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Animal Sounds
woof, ruff, bow wow, yap, arf, yip, mew, meow, moo, oink, growl, roar and 27 more...
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