- /ˌɒnəmætəˈpiːə, -mɑːt-/ .
Words that
imitate sounds can thus be said to be
onomatopoeic, onomatopoetic, imitative, or echoic. In the case of a frog croaking...
- "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...
-
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...
-
interjections in
addition to nouns, and many of them are also
specifically onomatopoeic.
Animal communication Animal epithet Animal language Bioacoustics Cat...
-
young American woman in the
Broadway district of Nashville, Tennessee;
onomatopoeic catchphrase Meaning The
sound of
spitting on a ****
during fellatio...
- "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...
- pulled.
According to the
Diccionario de la
lengua española,
churro is
onomatopoeic,
ultimately imitative of the
sound of frying.
Churros are
fried until...
- "****",
while North American species are
called either "chickadees" (
onomatopoeic,
derived from
their distinctive "chick-a dee dee dee"
alarm call) or...
-
difference in
language often results in miscommunication, as seen in an
onomatopoeic example, "555",
which sounds like "crying" in Chinese, and "laughing"...
- was
initially marketed as the
Cosaque (French for Cossack), but the
onomatopoeic "cracker" soon
became the
commonly used name, as
rival varieties came...
