Go ahead. Say this word three times quickly! Yes, this is a real word. It is a noun (1577-Greek) and it is a word whose pronunciation imitates it’s meaning. Common illustrations of this word are animal sounds such as meow, chirp, oink, roar, quack, moo, woof, cuckoo and ribbit. Other English language examples include: buzz, clink, thump, slurp, beep-beep, splash, sizzle, honk, boom and hiss.
It is used often in jokes, children’s songs (Old MacDonald), poetry and literature. Here is an example in a beautiful poem and an example from “The Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe.
Cynthia in the Snow - by Gwendolyn Brooks
It SUSHES.Cynthia in the Snow - by Gwendolyn Brooks
It hushes
The loudness in the road.
It flitter-twitters,
And laughs away from me.
It laughs a lovely whiteness,
And whitely whirs away,
To be
Some otherwhere,
Still white as milk or shirts.
So beautiful it hurts.
The Bells - Edgar Allan Poe
And who tolling, tolling, tolling,
In that muffled monotone,
Feel a glory in so rolling
On the human heart a stone...
What examples do you have?
splish splash I was takin a bath down around saturday night, rub dub i jumped back in the tub thinkin everything was all right....outside they was a movin and a groovin..... this was an olympic word miss Colette!
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