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We will not mention her last, for it is an enormous and unpronounceable onomatope.— Petty Troubles of Married Life
(patois for the French _toc_) is an onomatope for the sound of knocking at a door.— Two Years in the French West Indies
And in the minds of the colored population the American steamer is so intimately associated with the idea of those great tin cans in which food - stuffs are brought from the United States, that the onomatope applied to the can, because of the sound outgiven by it when tapped, -- _bom!— Two Years in the French West Indies
A recent praiseworthy study of onomatopes in the Japanese language has been made by Mr. Aston, who defines an onomatope as "the artistic representation of an inarticulate sound or noise by means of an articulate sound" (394. 333— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day
_Hüt_, as an unsuccessful imitation of the locomotive-whistle by my boy of two and a half years, seems also noteworthy as an onomatope independently invented, because it was used daily for months in the same way merely to designate the whistle.— The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX.
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