onomatopoeia

Clap

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Both a type of hit and the sound associated with it.

  • 01.095 As soon as I clapped eyes on the little fellow
  • 04.019 Clap! Snap! the black crack!
  • 04.022 The walls echoed to the clap, snap!
  • 04.023 and clapped their hands,
  • 06.005 He could have clapped
  • 07.092 Beorn clapped his hands,
  • 16.043 clapping Bilbo on the back.
  • 18.023 and broke like a clap of thunder through the ring.

Whistle

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Again, it depends on what is whistling.  The sound-play words are intensifiers, not valences.

  • 01.092 like the whistle of an engine coming out of a tunnel.
  • 02.002 Bilbo began to whistle loudly
  • 05.112 a whistling
  • 05.143 Whistles blew,
  • 07.030 and when I call or whistle begin to come after me –
  • 07.051 So Gandalf gave a long shrill whistle,
  • 07.061 They don’t seem all to have come when I whistled.
  • 07.062 Go on, whistle again!
  • 07.063 Gandalf whistled again;
  • 07.100 its whistling voices were released.
  • 12.022 in fierce whistling steam,
  • 14.040 Above the borders of the Forest there was whistling,
  • 17.039 and arrows whistled;

“whistle, v.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 29 May 2015.

Trot

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Even when wolves do it, trotting sounds light hearted.

  • 04.038 as fast as he could trot,
  • 04.038 he was trotting along again,
  • 05.007 and trotted along with his little sword held
  • 05.010 he trotted splash into water!
  • 06.058 Just at that moment the wolves trotted
  • 07.032 trotted up across the grass
  • 07.036 As for Bilbo he could easily have trotted through his legs
  • 07.092 in trotted four beautiful white ponies
  • 07.145 Off they trotted gaily,
  • 09.003 Nor did they hear or feel him trotting along
  • 09.026 but Bilbo was trotting as fast as he could
  • 12.035 Did you expect me to trot back
  • 13.017 Quickly Bilbo trotted to the door

Splash

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Definitely sound play – and a familiar one.  Falling into the water is not always humourous – but that seems to be the feel in these passages.  Well bless us and splash us!

  • 01.065 Splash the wine on every door!
  • 02.029 as he splashed along behind the others
  • 05.010 he trotted splash into water!
  • 05.015 and splash us, my precioussss!
  • 05.105 and the splash as Gollum leapt from his boat.
  • 07.106 a splash of white on the floor came from the high moon,
  • 08.018 Splash it fell
  • 09.049 Heave ho! Splash plump!
  • 09.054 splash!
  • 10.045 and splashed,
  • 11.006 and splashing among many boulders,
  • 16.017 and fell into the cold water with a splash.