Crossword-Solution: ONOMATOPOEIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Onomatopoeic | a. | Onomatopoetic. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “ONOMATOPOEIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| onomatopoetic | 1 answer |
| Parroting | 3 answers |
| mimetic | 3 answers |
| ECHOIC | 5 answers |
| mimicking | 11 answers |
| Copying | 30 answers |
| Related | 49 answers |
| Imitative | 54 answers |
| Similar | 55 answers |
| Relative | 82 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MZAECE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with ONOMATOPOEIC (5)
Peter Samson (compiler of the TMRC lexicon) thinks it may originally have been onomatopoeic for the sound of a relay spring (contact) being twanged.
Reminiscences of the motivation of words (especially onomatopoeic qualities, i.e., phonetic resemblance to what the word refers to, such as crack or whoosh) do not really affect the abstract rules of generating statements, or even our understanding of such language signs.
Peter Samson (compiler of the original TMRC lexicon) thinks it may originally have been onomatopoeic for the sound of a relay spring (contact) being twanged.
And he would have chosen it instinctively--for onomatopoeic reasons--because it hums and drones and murmurs dreamily.
How then shall we succeed in winter, and with horses so weak that they can only go _op-een-stap_?"[344] [Footnote 344: An onomatopoeic expression for the step of a tired horse.] Elsewhere the minutes of the burgher meetings afford even more direct evidence of the fact that it was the desperate condition of the Boers, and not any desire to make friends with a generous opponent, that led them to surrender.
Quotes with ONOMATOPOEIC (1)
It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction.