- /ˌɒnəmætəˈpiːə, -mɑːt-/ .
Words that
imitate sounds can thus be said to be
onomatopoeic, onomatopoetic, imitative, or echoic. In the case of a frog croaking...
- "The Bells" is a
heavily onomatopoeic poem by
Edgar Allan Poe
which was not
published until after his
death in 1849. It is
perhaps best
known for the diacopic...
-
interjections in
addition to nouns, and many of them are also
specifically onomatopoeic.
Animal communication Animal epithet Animal language Bioacoustics Cat...
-
Flatulence is the
expulsion of gas from the
intestines via the ****,
commonly referred to as ****ing. "Flatus" is the
medical word for gas
generated in...
- "boom bap" to
mimic the
sound of the rhythm. This was the
first recorded onomatopoeic expression of the beat. The term
later became a
universal name for the...
- is
derived from Old
English cȳta (“kite; bittern”),
possibly from the
onomatopoeic Proto-Indo-European root *gū- , "screech." Some
authors use the terms...
-
difference in
language often results in miscommunication, as seen in an
onomatopoeic example, "555",
which sounds like "crying" in Chinese, and "laughing"...
-
vegetables boiled in
water and
served with
dipping sauces. The term is
onomatopoeic,
derived from the
sound – "swish swish" –
emitted when the ingredients...
-
around 300 g (11 oz). The name is a
loanword from
Wiradjuri guuguubarra,
onomatopoeic of its call. The loud,
distinctive call of the
laughing kookaburra is...
- from
forms of the name William, cf. French: Guillaume, but
ultimately onomatopoeic from the loud, high-pitched "will, willem"
begging calls of the newly...
