onomatopoeic

Its onomatopoeic title, meant to represent a heartbeat, was quickly adopted as gay slang for anything and everything.

Moffat evokes the same simmering tension with “Boom,” right down to the onomatopoeic episode title.

Moffat evokes the same simmering tension with “Boom,” right down to the onomatopoeic episode title.

Others still have functionally random names, like the onomatopoeic Bobolink and Veery, or Osprey, which is derived from the Old French word ospreit, itself coming from a Latin word meaning “bird of prey.”

Naming a bird after its vocalization is only helpful when the bird is vocalizing, and onomatopoeic names aren’t really “helpful” at all.