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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Onomatopoeia

This week's word is onomatopoeia.  It is a noun that means "a word (or the formation of one) that sounds like what it describes".  It's a fun word to say (on-uh-mah-tuh-pee-uh), and words that are onomatopoeic are fun, too!  Here are a few that I can think of:

tick tock                                       

BANG!

                                     hiss

ROAR!                          

hiccup

                CRASH!

zip                           


What words can you think of that use onomatopoeia?



Posted by Janelle at 6:33 AM
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4 comments:

  1. ThenaJune 30, 2011 at 6:01 PM

    Old age didn't come
    With a BANG, or a CRASH or a ROAR
    It crept in more like a s n o r e
    And each day it creeps a bit m o r e...
    Thena

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  2. JanelleJuly 1, 2011 at 9:03 AM

    Love it, Thena! :)

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  3. RyLaBJuly 6, 2011 at 11:11 AM

    Onomatopeias are always fun (even if the word itself is nearly impossible to spell). I'm a pretty big fan of them in other languages as well.

    In Japan, a cat says "nyan" and a frog says "kerokero." They even have a word for staring, "jiiiiii," though I'm not sure if that counts as an onomatopeia.

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  4. JanelleJuly 12, 2011 at 12:14 AM

    Hard to spell is right! :)

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