Query — is there an equivalent to boy noises for girls?
I know this is a weird one but today, it occurred to me that most of us know what we mean when we say boy noises. The arummm rumm sound of a revving car engine. The bruummmmbruumm of a motorcycle speeding up. There’s others, but they all come clumped as boy noises.
Is there an equivalent list of girl noises? I could come up with giggles or squee sounds but that’s really not equivalent, or is that just because I’m a girl? I have to confess that I made a heck of a lot of boy noises when I was growing up because I preferred the trucks and cars to those stiff dolls that didn’t do anything but look creepy — so I have a bias here. I had a lot of girl friends but thinking about sounds, I don’t recall any particular sounds equivalent to those engine noises and such that guys make when playing.
Is that because girls are doing the doll/tea party thing? Does the type of play for girls eliminate the need to make background noises? Even girls that pretend to ride horses don’t tend to make horsey snorting sounds — at least not the one’s I knew but occasionally they did slap their legs to make a clip-clop sounds.
I’m really curious — is there an equivalent? What’s your take on this?