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 #2 (permalink) Tue May 16, 2006 9:03 am Smack |
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I think you could say:
The mother was smacking her lips at the crying baby. |
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| #3 (permalink) Tue May 16, 2006 9:29 am Blowing a kiss |
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Hi Alvira,
The nearest I can think of to what you are asking is the expression bill and coo.
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| #4 (permalink) Tue May 16, 2006 10:46 am Expression: Blowing a kiss |
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| Alvira wrote: |
| ... could you tell me what the action is called? exactly the same thing we do to angry dogs and when calling pet cats. |
You're right, Alvira! This is also exactly the way I call my cat. But I really don't know how to say what it is I'm doing other than to describe it as "making kissing sounds at the cat". :D
And if I understand your question correctly, you're more or less talking about "making repeated kissing sounds", aren't you?
Conchita's "smacking her lips at" is a good suggestion, except that I tend to associate lip-smacking with eating and not kissing. (I'd hate for somebody to get the wrong idea if I said I was smacking my lips at my cat... :lol: )
Alan's "bill and coo" also goes in the right direction, but that's more a kind of quiet, soothing talking rather than just "kissing sounds".
Is there really no exact word or phrase for this activity?
I can't think of one...
Looks like it needs inventing. :D
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| #5 (permalink) Wed May 17, 2006 23:06 pm Expression: Blowing a kiss |
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Hey All,
That's funny!
You really don't have a word for that? :lol:
We call that "cupp" (tzoup)
But Hungarian cats would never listen to that sound.
You got to say: C C C (tz tz tz) if you want a cat to pay attention.
There's an even funnier thing:
If you give a kiss on lips, it's called "cs?k" (chok with long o)
but on the cheek, it's called "puszi" (Don't try to say it aloud)
I think you understand now how strange can a long-distant call be from Canada to Hungary for an ear-witness, especially when you hanging up, and say:
I gotta go now, take care, puszi-puszi :)
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