8 Words You Didn’t Know Were Onomatopoeias
An onomatopoeia is a word that mimics the sound it’s meant to describe. You might be familiar with some of the more overt examples, such as “buzz,” “splat,” “hiss,” “pow,” and “boom” — think of the words that used to be splashed on the TV during fight scenes in the
original Batman cartoons. Some onomatopoeic words, however, aren’t as obvious. Here are eight examples of onomatopoeias that are hiding in your regular vocabulary. A cliché is “a trite phrase or expression” — for example, “don’t judge a book by its cover” or “actions speak louder than words.” The term came...
