Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In accordance with onomatopœia; by an onomatopœic process.
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- adverb In an
onomatopoetic manner.
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Examples
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As a vocal sound, in Morrison's music, it describes itself, onomatopoetically: that's what you hear when, as a singer, he makes a rip in his own song, in his own sound.
Listening to Van Morrison by Greil Marcus Greil Marcus 2010
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The onomatopoetically named general manager of the Yankees is Brian Cashman.
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-Dave Zabriskie onomatopoetically reproducing the sound of a puncture on his Twitter
BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz (Special Thursday Edition)! BikeSnobNYC 2009
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The question is, not whether the roots of language originated onomatopoetically or interjectionally, but simply whether they originated through imitation or not.
The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX. William T. Preyer 1869
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Was the abstract “to be” onomatopoetically imitated?
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"Kayrawán" which is still the common name for curlew, the peewit and plover being called (onomatopoetically) "Bibat" and in Marocco Yahúdi, certain impious Jews having been turned into the Vanellus Cristatus which still wears the black skullcap of the
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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It must be what the Taiwanese onomatopoetically call "q-q" - springy, but not mushy or gummy.
Independent Weekly David A. Ross 2010
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