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.

Its call is like its name: an onomatopoeic “fee bee.”

Silly songs and rhymes with interesting onomatopoeic sounds and simple, repetitive words are also highly useful, such as “Galumph Went the Little Green Frog” and “Jelly in a Bowl.”

Mr. Baker puts weight on the theory that the word “may have come about due to its onomatopoeic qualities.”