onomotopoetically
English
Etymology
onomatopoetical + -ly
Adverb
onomotopoetically (comparative more onomotopoetically, superlative most onomotopoetically)
- By means of onomatopoeia.
- 2000, Winston Napier, African American Literary Theory: A Reader, page 233:
- 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.
- 2010, Seo-Young Chu, Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?, page 49:
- Just as the word “buzz” onomatopoetically “sounds like” buzzing, so too do words such as “noocytes,” "positronic," and "ansible"" onomatopoetically "sound like" science.
- 2010, Theodore Levin, Where Rivers and Mountains Sing:
- 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.”