Onomatopoeia

redface
redface Forum Participant Posts: 1,701
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edited August 2018 in Fun & Trivia #1

Or words that sound like the thing itself.

e.g. Whoosh, Meow or Woof!

I love them - how many do you know?

Thinking about it, the title sounds like a 6 week old puppy weeing on a carpet .(on a mat a pee-er)

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  • Waffler
    Waffler Forum Participant Posts: 149
    edited August 2018 #2

    Absolutely great. I love this sort of thing, how about "The locomotive belched steam."- personification.  Malapropisms-  the train was full of computers. Is Bowdlerism  Bappy Hirthday?  Spoonerism?  Think I might have this wrong and Bowdlerism is changing a word for apparent decency.

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