onomotopoetically

comparative more onomotopoetically · superlative most onomotopoetically

1. By means of onomatopoeia.

   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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   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

   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