+1 Yea snorting is always exhaling (forcefully), whether it is with laughter or as a sign of discontent. The only time it refers to inhaling is when it is about drugs.
Have to agree with everyone else here that "sniff" should be accepted.
I'm also inclined to suggest that "gurgle" should be accepted for "glug", but since nobody else in the comments has said that, it's possible I'm just the only one daft enough to come up with "gurgle"...
Also, "knock on wood" is almost exclusively done on tables and desks, in my experience. Knock should work - it's a word that sounds like what it describes.
Ummmm... Why is slurp related to hot soup? Eating why does it have to be hot? Why does it have to be soup? I would probably sip or go OUCH, so I don't get the clue.
yeah I also got caught up on the "hot" part of the clue, which threw me off and cost me getting the answer I think. You can slurp soup of any temperature.
Thanks, ander. That's pretty much a slam-dunk there. I've never seen a Slurpee sold scalding hot. Though I have seen some that became that way, left in a hot car mid-Summer.
I think that would be more like blow and trepidatiously sip... I visualize slurping as the sort of thing that would burn your tongue and roof of your mouth if it's that hot. And it's on an onomatopoeia quiz so... it also has to be an action that makes a noise. If you are slurping down scalding hot soup so fast that it's making a lot of noise, you'll definitely burn yourself.
Too many of these involve too much guess work and there's not enough time. By the fourth one I was guessing multiple sounds.
A lot of other comments are already complaining about "Getting struck by a laser." The given answer is not one of my first seven guesses, and if I were to work backward from the answer, the clue would not by one of the first seven things I'd think of.
But it's exactly the same scenario with "A camera shutter closing." There's even a very universal onomatopoeia used for this sound in the vernacular lexicon ("snap"), and it's not accepted.
I'm not so sure about the rapid inhalation being a snort, I think inhalation is a sniff and a short is rapid exhalation. Apart from that, it's a pretty interesting quiz.
Why Casio watch in particular? Surely they're not the only ones to go beep and they're not exclusively digital they do analogue. It threw me- thought there was some kind of clue in the word
noun
1.
an explosive sound made by the sudden forcing of breath through one's nose, used to express indignation, derision, or incredulity.
"he gave a snort of disgust"
verb
1.
make a sudden explosive sound through one's nose, especially to express indignation or derision.
"she snorted with laughter"
I'm also inclined to suggest that "gurgle" should be accepted for "glug", but since nobody else in the comments has said that, it's possible I'm just the only one daft enough to come up with "gurgle"...
I don't think it's hard to make the leap from one to the other, just wanted you to know you aren't alone.
They just don't make cartoons like those classic Hannah-Barbara anymore.
A lot of other comments are already complaining about "Getting struck by a laser." The given answer is not one of my first seven guesses, and if I were to work backward from the answer, the clue would not by one of the first seven things I'd think of.
But it's exactly the same scenario with "A camera shutter closing." There's even a very universal onomatopoeia used for this sound in the vernacular lexicon ("snap"), and it's not accepted.