- /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...
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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...
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holds a
baseball bat. The "Tung Tung Tung" in the character's name is an
onomatopoeic reference to the drum-beating used in
Indonesia to
signify the beginning...
- "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...
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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...
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young American woman in the
Broadway district of Nashville, Tennessee;
onomatopoeic catchphrase Meaning The
sound of
spitting on a **** as a form of fellatio...
- from
forms of the name William, cf. French: Guillaume, but
ultimately onomatopoeic from the loud, high-pitched "will, willem"
begging calls of the newly...
-
Dominican friar Albertus Magnus in
about 1250,
which he
stated to be
onomatopoeic, from the song of the
European golden oriole. One of the
species in the...
