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onomotopoetically en · ADV

Etymology

From onomatopoetical + -ly.

Meanings

1. By means of onomatopoeia.
   • Camels walk with a lurching gait, onomatopoetically called jonjoo in Mongolian (“jon-joo jon-joo jon-joo”), which English might render, less onomatopoetically, as “clump, clump, clump.” 2010, Theodore Levin, Where Rivers and Mountains Sing:
   • The “musical sign,” on the other hand, suggests cultural signals that function onomatopoetically by calling to mind “natural” sounds, or sounds “naturally” associated with common human situations. 2000, Winston Napier, African American Literary Theory: A Reader, page 233:
   • Just as the word “buzz” onomatopoetically “sounds like” buzzing, so too do words such as “noocytes,” "positronic," and "ansible"" onomatopoetically "sound like" science. 2010, Seo-Young Chu, Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?, page 49:

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