Answers to Onomatopoetic Words

Here are the answers:

1. bari bari - the sound of tearing paper
2. boro boro - being worn out and old [something old is said to be "boro"]
3. deko boko - to be bumpy [usually in reference to a surface]
4. doki doki - excited fast beating heart [not to be confused with "toki doki" which means "from time to time"]
5. fuwa fuwa - fluffy [doesn't it sort of have a "fluffy" sound?]
6. gari gari - the sound of scraping
7. giri giri -just in the nick of time
8. gucha gucha - being very soft and wet (flooded carpeting) [imagine what footsteps would sound like on a flooded carpet]
9. guru guru - round and round in circles
10. hoka hoka - warm, heated (a warm bento) [there's a bento shop near my aunt's in Japan that's called Hoka Hoka Bento]
11. iro iro - this and that
12. kara kara - the state of being very dry
13. niko niko - smiling
14. peko peko - to be hungry
15. pera pera - fluent in a language
16. pika pika - blinking lights [just say this the next time you see a blinking light]
17. pon pon - to have a full stomach [next time after a heavy meal, rub your stomach and say "pon pon"]
18. ten ten - to be dotted
19. wai wai - a state of noisy exuberance (noisy kids)
20. wan wan - the sound that a dog makes [a doggie is sometimes referred to as wanwan-chan]