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Term jumped in my brain this morning and I my wife and I remember it from our school days, but cannot remember what it means.

2007-01-13 01:41:30 · 11 answers · asked by cedricsquire 1 in Education & Reference Words & Wordplay

11 answers

It's "onomatopeia." It means the sound of the word imitates what it means like: buzz, zipp, poof, pop, and woof. "The bee buzzes around the flowers."

Edgar Allen Poe coined a term, "tintinabulation," to mimic a bell sound in his poem, "The Bells."

Cool question, especially appreciated by language geeks!

2007-01-13 01:53:29 · answer #1 · answered by pomommie 2 · 0 0

onomatopoeia the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it buzz bang boom

Hello =)

Millie makes mud muffins most masterfully.

Namaste,

--Tom

that's alliteration the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables

2007-01-13 01:46:36 · answer #2 · answered by ♫♥♫awesomeness♫♥♫ 3 · 2 0

You wrote Japanese by mistake.

"Ano mono pia"
means
"That thing [is a] pier."

2007-01-13 06:27:45 · answer #3 · answered by Ken O 3 · 0 0

It's a word that makes a sound, like "bang" or "zoom" or "whizz" or "click"

and it is spelled Onomatopoeia

2007-01-13 01:48:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Onomatopoeia is the use of a word to describe a sound such as "boom" or "quack".

2007-01-13 01:51:06 · answer #5 · answered by Mike G 2 · 0 0

i think u mean onomatopia which is a figure of speech.
used in poems where some sort of sound is represented.

2007-01-13 02:18:26 · answer #6 · answered by ♥♥happening♥♥ 2 · 0 0

Its actually onomatopoeia...a word that imitates the sound it represents... like 'gong' or 'zoom'.

2007-01-13 01:48:31 · answer #7 · answered by FreddyBoy1 6 · 0 0

Hello =)

Millie makes mud muffins most masterfully.

Namaste,

--Tom

Oh well.....40 years of delusion......shot to hell.....LOL

2007-01-13 01:45:08 · answer #8 · answered by glassnegman 5 · 0 0

I have no clue. I've never heard of it and I'm still in school.

2007-01-16 05:05:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

ontomotapeioa, I think...
crash
bang
boom
words hat represent the sound being made.

2007-01-13 01:45:09 · answer #10 · answered by starryeyed 6 · 1 0

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