onomatopoetic

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And sound effects are hard to render, as Japanese brims with onomatopoetic words that don’t exist in English.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2023

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 blur is punctuated by black humor and bratty italics—peppered with the names of luxury brands, designer products, and onomatopoetic cries of AUGGGH.

From Slate • Feb. 24, 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