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- Meaning of the phrase womp womp in American English?
The "womp womp" or "womp womp womp womp" sound affect seems to be part of whatever sound effects and music library is widely used in making lots of the amateur low-budget kids videos on YouTube, and probably ships as part of the standard effects library in some popular video production application
- Fail trumpet onomatopoeia - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The most common ways I've seen are writing out the words: sad trombone : ( trombone Or to use the onomatopoeic Wah, Wah, Wah, Wahhhhhhh … Womp, Womp, Womp, Wommmmmp… (at the behest of several commenters) Or to combine them: sad trombone: wah, wah, wah, wahhhhh …
- What do mug - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The word mugwump was derived from the Algonquin Indian word mugquomp See Etymonline It is complete coincidence that it can be broken into mug and wump But when people break it up like this, they do it because mug means face, and wump is a mispronunciation of rump, meaning rear end
- Why do word beginnings with X take a z sound in English?
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has a bit of information related to this The OED entry for X notes that the z pronunciation is evident from spelling variants with z- for x-, some of which go back to the 15th century This OED entry mentions "Zanctus" for Xanthus in John Lydgate's siege of Troy, book ii The OED entry for xiphias cites an alternative spelling "Ziffius" from Spenser's
- etymology - What is the origin of cattywampus - English Language . . .
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- What is the name of this type of word: Mr. , Ms. , Dr. ?
What is this type of word called: Mr , Ms , Dr ? In the document I am using, it is referred to as the "prefix", but I don't think that is correct
- Differences between slang words for breasts
What is the difference between “tits” and “boobs”? P S I'm not sure if this question is appropriate but as English is not my native language I really would love to know the difference
- Is there an idiom or typical expression for an unfunny joke?
Yet a third approach, sometimes when a joke is just terrible, some people (for example I have a friend who does this all the time) just respond by saying " womp womp " which is meant to reflect the following sound made by a trumpet, tuba, trombone or other such brass instrument: womp womp Which is often a shortened version of this:
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