onomatopoetic

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Across an avalanche of pages written in that famously onomatopoetic style, Wolfe might have given us “A Tan in Full.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2020

The name itself—“Snapchat”—was a breezy mashup of two onomatopoetic colloquialisms, each connoting casual spontaneity.

From Slate • Oct. 19, 2017

The pair of judges who hand down the verdicts are the onomatopoetic foodies Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2017

Shabu shabu is a Japanese onomatopoetic word for "swish swish," the sound the food makes in the hot pot; hyang in Korean means the "aroma of."

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2015

Unlike good names, pet names are frequendy meaningless, deliberately silly, ironic, even onomatopoetic.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri