The origins of BAW and SQUEE.

[Scribblette]

I've been wondering where these words and attached sentiment actually originated. Squee itself I think I picked up from girls being superduper girly and excited about something in WoW, and have used since. But I'm not sure how the word sound came be to associated with excitement. If it's from SQUEAK, well, do people usually squeak with excitement?

...actually, that does sound familiar. Is that a saying? To squeak with excitement?

BAWW itself - which I've pronounced as "Bowww" - I thought my fiancee and I invented ourselves. In particular, I thought I invented it when talking to my birds! As in, "Awww, don't be boww, birdie, it's okay."

Somehow from there it went to "aww, the face of bowww" and turned into a reference to the Face of Bo from Doctor Who...

But I see it in use on the forums! So it must've been around since before then!

Is it derived from bawl?

 

[mawk]

Sort of. I think that both terms are forms of onomatopoeia -- SQUEE resembles, as you say, a girlish squeal of excitement, while BAWWW sounds like a comical exaggerated sob. As for how they originated, well, my guess is as good as yours.

 

[Luminier]

it's like cool or dude. nobody knows where they came from but thy sure are cool, dude :shades:
(ps im sure somebody must know where those came from but it doesnt matter)

 

[Despain]

nobody with any sense actually uses SQUEE because they would associate it with a certain immortal goblin

 

[Scribblette]

Oo, definitive righteousness, Dez? No beard, turban or bundle of sticky red stuff taped to your chest yet, though? (I couldn't think of a short reference to owning the White House to insert here to go with that, sadly :sad

HANG ON! Justwaitaminute - so the only people who have any sense are folk who play collectible card games and know who Squee is?

That actually makes sense. o_O

But therefore I don't have any, and therefore I wouldn't know, and therefore it probably doesn't. Oh dear, I feel a paradox coming on.

If I was to associate with anyone, I'd associate it with Captain Hooks right hand man. Well, left hand man. I forget where the hook was.

Onomatopoeia sounds reasonable, thanks for that Boogie.

 

[Despain]

so the only people who have any sense are folk who play collectible card games and know who Squee is?

precisely

 

[arbiter]

;D

 

[Kav]

BAAWWW comes from a furfag comic posted on 4chan (a furfag crying because he pissed himself)

 

[Dissonance]

Baw is from 4chan /v/ where some faggot posted a picture of a bunny crying with the speech bubble BAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

 

[serrated_colon]

:X
i just used it to put down stupid members

 

[Luminier]

:X
i just used it to put down stupid members

ahahahahaha you have become what you hate most.

someone who references things from 4chan. what will you do now...?

 

[serrated_colon]

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[serrated_colon]

but seriously holy shit i am such a hypocrite now


Farah, this isn't NFG, tone it down a notch. <3 ~ Atemu

 

[Luminier]

it's ok... you will pull through this... just remember not to cry... or else... waaaaahmbulance :3

 

[Ellie]

nah i've heard of baww way before that. it was a term on many other forums i've been to, at least five years ago (unless that rabbit is from before then). and waaaambulance too.

 

[Scribblette]

Some odd things to discover out there! Apparently...

baw - 1. Noun. Scottish dialect slang term for 'testicle'.
And then, Buck Ass Wild!

Golly. No reference to the onomaetopic use at all, if I'm using that word right.

BOW:
A sound effect from early 90s video game, Super Mario World. This particular sound is made when the character, Yoshi regurgitates an enemy out its mouth resulting in a noise resembling the word 'bow.' Can be used in response to just about anything said to you. Occasionally this word has a rippling effect and once triggered by one person can result in a room full of people repeating the word over and over until everyone is in a state of hysteria.

SQUEE:
The cry of the rabid fangirl (Usually a rabid anime fangirl), heard across many hallways.

Also a character name from a comic/animation/I forget, plus the goblin one, etc etc.

 

[Anonymous]

BAW is way older than that, I've seen it used in the ROGER RED HAT books. 4chan probably made it a lot more popular as an insult but it's a pretty accurate way of expessing the sound a small child having a tantrum makes.