The dictionary of sounds

ABATVOIX–CYMBAL • DEAD-BELL–GUPP • HACKLE–LURE • MADDLE–QUOBBLE • RAIRD–SWIR • TAGHAIRM–YOWF

Hackle. To rattle, re-echo. (Wilts.)

Haffer. To make a noise like the bursting of a pod. (Somer.)

Hallyoch. A strange gabbling noise, esp. that heard when listening to a strange tongue. (Scot.)

Halsening. Sounding harshly in the throat; inharmonious; rough.

Hammergag. A boisterous noise. (Suff.)

Han. The sound made by men while cleaving wood; the groan or sigh-like voice wherewith wood-cleavers keep time to their strokes. (Yorks.)

Happen. To rattle, make a cracking sound. (Somer.)

Happer. To fall with a heavy sound; to rattle down, patter. (W. Eng.)

Harmony. Uproar, noise, disturbance. (Suff.)

Hask. To emit a hoarse, dry cough; to clear the throat; to make a noise as a dog does when anything sticks in its throat. (N. Eng. & Scot.)

Hawch. To make a loud noise with the lips or mouth in eating. (W. Eng.)

Hear. To sound. (Yorks.)

Heather-peep. A bird, said to be peculiar to the mountains of Ayrshire, which continually emits a plaintive sound. (Scot.)

Heck. To make a noise with one's throat. (Norf.)

Heemlin. Applied to a continual, rumbling sound. (Scot.)

Herring-piece. A rushing sound in the air caused by the flight of the redwing, considered a good omen of fishing. (Kent)

Hicket. To hiccup, gasp for breath, make a choking sound; to retch. (Kent & Surr.)

Hick-haw. To make a piteous noise; the braying of an ass. (Yorks.)

Hirdy-girdy. A disorderly noise, a disturbance. (Northum. & Scot.)

Hiren. A peculiar sound like wind heard when the air is still. (W. Eng.)

Hirrient. A trilled sound.

Hirsle. To move forward with a rustling sound. (Scot.)

Hish. To make a hissing noise to hound on a dog; to drive away an animal by making a hissing sound. (Warw. & Norf.)

Hiskie. A hissing sound. (Scot.)

Hiving-sough. A sound made by bees before they hive. (Scot.)

Hobbing. Holloaing, whooping, making a noise. (Heref.)

Hodening, hoodening. The name formerly given to a mumming or masquerade on Christmas Eve, still applied to the singing of carols. (Kent)

Holster. To make a noise or racket. (Dev.)

Homany. Noise, disturbance. (Somer.)

Hone. To whine, complain, murmur. (Prov. Eng.)

Hooch. The sound made by narrowing the lips and blowing the breath. (Scot.)

Hooie. The sound made by the wind whistling round a corner or through a keyhole. (W. Eng.)

Hoolybuss. A noise, tumult, disorder. (Corn.)

Hoo-roo. A hubbub, noise, tumult. (N. Eng.)

Hooting. The noise made by a wheel which requires greasing, when in motion. (Worcs.)

Hoozle. To breathe with a wheezing noise as when out of breath. (Scot.)

Horrisonous. Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound.

Hottle. The bubbling sound of anything boiling. (Scot.)

Howe, howch. Of sounds of the voice: hollow, deep, low, guttural. (N. Eng. & Scot.)

Howk-chowk. To make a noise as if poking among deep mud. (Scot.)

Hubbadalion. A noise, disturbance. (Corn.)

Huffle. A wailing or hollow sound of wind. (W. Eng.)

Hulder. A deafening noise or din. (Dev.)

Humbering. Humming, buzzing. (Warw.)

Humbuzz. A piece of wood shaped so as to make a humming sound when swung around on a string. (Mids. & W. Eng.)

Humdrum. A small low three-wheeled cart, drawn usually by one horse; used occasionally in agriculture. From the peculiarity of its construction, it makes a kind of humming noise when it is drawn along. (Somer.)

Hummer. To hum, murmur; to make a low, rumbling noise. (N. & E. Eng.)

Humstrum. A rude kind of musical instrument; a home-made fiddle. (S. & W. Eng.)

Hurklin. The peculiar sound made in breathing when there is phlegm in the throat or breast. (Shet. & Ork.)

Hurl. The noise called by the violent fall of any hard material, or the passage of one hard substance over the surface of another. (Scot.)

Hurless. Deafened with noise. (Shet.)

Hurr. To make a rolling or burring sound. "R is the dog's letter, and hurreth in the sound." B. Jonson.

Huzz. To buzz, hum, make a whirring noise. (N. Eng.)

Hydatism. The sound caused by the fluctuation of pus in an abscess.

Interjangle. To make a dissonant, discordant noise one with another; to talk or chatter noisily.

Ironsmith. An East Indian barbet, Megalaima faber, inhabiting the Island of Hainan. The name alludes to its note, which resembles the sounds made by a smith.

Jargle. To emit a harsh or discordant sound.

Jaffse. To make a noise with the jaws in eating. (Shet. & Ork.)

Jaup. To make a sound like water shaken in a vessel. (Scot.)

Jimmer. To make a disagreeable noise on a violin. (Scot.)

Jinglet. A ball serving as the clapper of a sleigh-bell.

Jingling Johnnie. A hurdy-gurdy. (Mids. & N. Eng.)

Jow. To ring or toll a bell; the sound a bell. (N. Eng.)

Jowl. To strike the wall of a coal-pit by way of signal or to ascertain from the sound produced the thickness of the wall. (Northum. & Durh.)

Jowlin. The cracking, rending sound heard when the props are removed from a mine-working. (Northum.)

Jug. To utter a sound resembling this word, as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.

Julk. To give a sound like liquor shaken in a cask not quite full. (E. Eng.)

Jumm. The hollow, moaning sound made by the sea in a storm. (Scot.)

Jurr. The noise made by a small waterfall descending among stones and gravel. (Scot.)

Kae. A caw; the sound made by a jackdaw. (Scot.)

Keck. The noise made in the gullet by sickness; a sound between a cough and a choke. (Yorks. & Lincs.)

Kell. A confused noise. (Derbs.)

Kerry. A loud noise, din, disturbance; an outcry, clamorous inquiry. (Ches.)

Kevel. A sound like the blow of a hammer. (N. Eng.)

Kink. To laugh loudly or immoderately; to choke with laughter. (N. Eng.)

Kinkin-coff. Whooping-cough. (Yorks.)

Knack. To make a sharp clicking sound; to crack, snap, break. (Prov. Eng. & Scot.)

Knack-and-rattle. A quick and noisy mode of dancing with the heels. (Yorks.)

Knirk. A creaking sound. (Shet. & Ork.)

Knoit. The sound of a heavy stroke or fall. (Scot.)

Kroytl. A bubbling noise like pouring fluid into a bottle. (Shet.)

Labb. The sound of the lapping of waves. (Scot.)

Laist. To listen. (Suff.)

Laistly. A condition of the atmosphere when sounds are heard distinctly. (Suff.)

Lambing, lamming. The peculiar bleating sound made by snipes. (Norf.)

Larry. A confused noise, as of a number of people all talking together. (W. Eng.)

Laryngophony. The sound of the voice as heard through a stethoscope when the latter is placed upon the larynx.

Latitat. A noise, a scolding; idle talk, chatter. (Somer.)

Ledden. A noise, a din. (N. Eng.)

Lerry. A jingling rhyme spoken by mummers. (Kent)

Lip. To make a noise with the lips to attract the notice of a dog. (Warw.)

Loadie-grunt. The sound made by a pig. (Shet.)

Loal. To make a strange noise, like a cat. (Yorks.)

Lolder. To sing in a noisy, ranting manner. (Yorks.)

Losh. To make the lapping sound caused by a running stream flowing over stones; to splash in water. (N. Eng.)

Lottle. To make the sound of water trickling in a small stream. (Wilts.)

Louster. To make a clumsy, rattling noise, to create a commotion; to scramble noisily about. (Suss. & Hamps.)

Louster-crown. One who is always making a noise or commotion. (Hamps.)

Lowbell. A bell rung at daybreak by the herdsman appointed to take charge of cows to be turned out for grazing during the day. (Berks.)

Lower. Of a bell or clock: to strike with a prolonged sound; to toll. (Dev.)

Lulls. Bagpipes. (Scot.)

Lure. To utter a loud and shrill cry. (E. Eng.)