英语词汇onomatopoeia的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	onomatopoeia
词源	onomatopoeia. The Greek for “making of words” is the an- cestor of onomatopoeia, which is the term for forming a word by imitating the sound associated with the object designated. Examples of such words are bang, buzz, cackle, clatter, crackle, cuckoo, hiss, murmur, pop, sizzle, tingle, twitter, whiz, whoosh, and zoom.
随便看	cromwell crony crooked as a barrel of fishhooks crooked as a barrel of snakes crooked as a bull-s pizzle crooked as a dog-s hind leg crooked as crawley croon crop crops croquet cross cross-acrostic cross as a bear crossing the bar crossing the line crossing the rubicon cross of gold crowbait crowbar crowder crow-french nightingale-french crowherd crow-keeper crown of thorns

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