onomatopoeias

Needless to say, I have a special place in my heart for onomatopoeias 1: the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it (as buzz, hiss) 2: the use of words whose sound suggests the sense (thank you Merriam-Webster).

blog – syllable studio 2009

To see a few of my favorite onomatopoeias, take a peek at this guide …

blog – syllable studio 2009

Here was the situation, as I recounted it to myself: somehow, I was trapped in some unearthly dimension where Baltimore, actor Emilio Estevez, and myself had somehow collided in a big cartoon scrum complete with onomatopoeias and clouds of dust.

I'm Not Emilio Estevez Christian Bell 2011

Certain fashion descriptions can be pure onomatopoeias.

Before You Put That On Lloyd Boston 2005

Certain fashion descriptions can be pure onomatopoeias.

Before You Put That On Lloyd Boston 2005

Certain fashion descriptions can be pure onomatopoeias.

Before You Put That On Lloyd Boston 2005

Rather like the poet's child, who though "Nature's playmate" yet "[m] ars" all its sounds "with his imitative lisp" (92-97) ,18 the speaker and his friends mar the bird's inimitable singing, and in fact seem to be drawn together night after night by what the nocturnal scene precisely does not provide them: by what their language of poetic archaisms, onomatopoeias, and other suspect figures of speech cannot reproduce

'Sweet Influences': Human/Animal Difference and Social Cohesion in Wordsworth and Coleridge, 1794-1806 2001

Maybe he'll find my onomatopoeias inappropriate, my puns unfunny, my alliteration absolutely awful.

The two-headed monstrous column strikes 1999

He then spoke with extreme volubility, but it was only a succession of onomatopoeias devoid of sense, of harsh interjections with _a_ and _ou_ predominant, as in the majority of Polynesian idioms.

Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery Jules Verne 1866

Colored pencils, comic strips, onomatopoeias and Ben-Day dots!

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