Words which are supposed to imitate the sound they describe, such as "buzz" or "hiss" or "squeak." Oddly enough, the words for these sounds are completely different in many languages, so they can't be very good imitations.
On`o*mat`o*pœ"ic (?), a.
Onomatopoetic.
Whitney.
© Webster 1913.
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