Baa vs Oink - What's the difference?
baa | oink |
(onomatopoeia) The characteristic cry or bleating of a sheep.
The letter in the Arabic script.
To make the characteristic cry of a sheep.
Representing the sound made by a pig.
Drawing attention to male chauvinism (from the term male chauvinist pig ).
* 1982 , Sandy Asher, Just like Jenny?
* 2003 , Robert N. Mansfield, Randy Maas, The Assassin: Attack on America
* 2005 , Alinka Zyrmont, Forbidden Passion
The sound made by a pig, or an imitation thereof.
Of a pig or in imitation thereof, to make its characteristic sound.
As interjections the difference between baa and oink
is that baa is baa while oink is representing the sound made by a pig.As a noun oink is
the sound made by a pig, or an imitation thereof.As a verb oink is
of a pig or in imitation thereof, to make its characteristic sound.baa
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* bleat * bleatingVerb
- He treble baas for help, but none can get. - Sir
oink
English
Interjection
(en interjection)- Mom swallowed a spoonful of pudding and looked Daddy straight in the eye. "Oink , oink," she said, to let him know he was being a male chauvinist pig.
- "The tub is too small!" "Then, I'll go first and you'll have to wait!" "Chauvinist pig!" "Oink , oink!"
- You are such a male chauvinist oink , oink. You think that you are the only one who can drive a car or fly an airplane.
Noun
(en noun)- The protesters replied to the police officers' demands with a chorus of oinks .
Synonyms
* gruntVerb
(en verb)- The hogs oinked happily in their pen as the farmer poured slop in their feeding trough.
