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Greek `name-making' a figure of speech that
copies natural sounds. Thus the word or name
`cuckoo' imitates the sound that the cuckoo
makes. Such words as bang, crash, ripple,
smash, splash, and thump are said to be
onomatopoeic. Onomatopoeia works differently
in different languages, the English bowwow
for a sound made by dogs being paralleled by
the French oua, oua. Onomatopoeia may be
built into prose or verse, as in `a sudden
sizzling sound', the s and z sounds used to
suggest frying.