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- adverb In an
onomatopoeic manner.
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Examples
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To the non-Semitic Sumerians it connoted "babbling" onomatopoeically.
Rabbi Samuel April: Compromise Is Made Of Mutual Concessions Rabbi Samuel April 2011
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O Nils, are you anagramming me, or just onomatopoeically playing footloose and fancy free?
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To the non-Semitic Sumerians it connoted "babbling" onomatopoeically.
Rabbi Samuel April: Compromise Is Made Of Mutual Concessions Rabbi Samuel April 2011
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Incidentally, my word verification was squingsh - which somehow seems onomatopoeically correct somehow.
Wordless Wednesday II: To Chicky, With Love kittenpie 2009
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Yes, scourge -- and it is truly onomatopoetic -- say it slow and the word "scourge" just tears right through your soul as you see what time has onomatopoeically wrought.
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It reminds of Fizik, insofar as it as onomatopoeically like a silent fart.
Weird Style: Cast-Offs and Bolt-Ons BikeSnobNYC 2009
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It whirls and rattles well, and I remember my own childhood when we called this apparatus onomatopoeically a windwhirr.
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It evokes onomatopoeically the verb pishtchat 'to squel, squeak, or peep.
Cranberry Jello Tarassuk, Leonid 1978
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It whirls and rattles well, and I remember my own childhood when we called this apparatus onomatopoeically a _windwhirr_.
Look Back on Happiness Knut Hamsun 1905
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Sometime in the last couple of decades, paparazzi became not so much the buzzing mosquitoes their namesakes in "La Dolce Vita" were meant onomatopoeically to conjure, as the predatory peckers of "The Birds."
NYT > Home Page By ALEXANDRA JACOBS 2011
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