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impact onomatopoeia
An umbrella tag for onomatopoeia associated with hitting, and other forms of collisions. Most sound effects representative of a forceful impact, or striking blow can be considered an impact / collision onomatopoeia.
Tagging guidelines
- Individual sound effect tags may be used for a variety of spelling variations. Check for missing letters as it may affect whether a sound effect form qualifies as an onomatopoeia.
- This tag, and even some of the individual sound effect tags have multi-language support. If the sound effect form in another language doesn't quite translate well enough into any specific form tag, this tag serves as the fallback tag for foreign, and English sound effect usages.
- Impact onomatopoeia can be tagged even if the impact is hidden from view.
- Some lighter (softer) impact concepts are usually better tagged under the parent concept: contact_onomatopoeia. Knocking, tapping, and thumping are the main examples.
- The parent tag contains numerous themes related to touching, and collision. The themes mentioned are impact related, and can be considered impact onomatopoeia; though it is useful to mention that there is flexibility available to users in how benign impacts are tagged.
List of impact onomatopoeia
| Sound effect form | Sound effect tag | Extra information |
|---|---|---|
| "Bap", "Bam", "Blam", "Bop" | N/A | |
| "Bash" | N/A | |
| "Bonk", "Bnk" | bonk_(sound_effect) | |
| "Bump" | bumping | This concept is sometimes treated as a light impact similar to knocking, tapping, and thumping. |
| "Clap" | clapping | The twerking, and the applause kind. |
| "Clash" | N/A | |
| "Crash" | crash | Not yet really tagged as an impact term yet; it is used similarly to "Smash" |
| "Flump", "Flmp", "Pomf" | flump, pomf | These terms generally are used to describe a character falling over, usually into something soft. Pomf is sometimes used as an alternative to "Poof". |
| "Plap", "Pap" | plap | Not to be confused with plop |
| "Pound" | N/A | |
| "Slam" | slam | |
| "Slap", "Shlap" | slap (action) slap_(sound_effect) shlap (alternative form of "Slap") | The presence of this sound effect doesn't always mean the action tag should be used. |
| "Smack" | smack_(sound_effect) | |
| "Spank" | spanking (action) spank_(sound_effect) | The action, and sound effect term usually both apply. This tag might be reformatted to spanking_sound_effect in the future. |
| "Smash" | smashing | |
| "Thud" | thud | |
| "Thunk" | N/A | |
| "Thwap", "Thwack" | thwap | |
| "Whack", "Wack" | whack | Perhaps this could use a suffix. |
| "Wham" | wham | |
| "Whap", "Wap" | whap | |
| "Whomp", "Whump" | N/A |
These may conditionally apply as impact onomatopoeia: "Bang", "Crack"
Exclusions
For tagging purposes, the following concepts should not be considered a part of this tag:
- Try to keep heartbeat sound effects out of this tag. Thumping can still be used for the "Thump" sound effect.
- Kissing, licking, or biting
- Impact terms exclusively related to water, or other liquids (slosh, splash). These are better placed in their own sound effect category.
See also
- sound_effects
- onomatopoeia
- contact_onomatopoeia
- impact_onomatopoeia
- motion_onomatopoeia
The following tags are aliased to this tag: impact_onomatopeia (learn more).
This tag implicates contact_onomatopoeia (learn more).
