Word: onomatopoeias
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...Swingle Singers' musical idiom is onomatopoeia, otherwise known in the trade as scat. Scat is like baby talk with a beat and is as old as singing in the shower. Rendered by a jazz stylist like Ella Fitzgerald, who reels off such breathless improvisations in Flying Home as "oodla-oodlee-ooblee-day-lay do-dee-a-din-doi-oodlay-a-din-doi-danzoit-boy-hem," scat can be a highly refined...
Wilson's graduate seminar, which will "start with onomatopoeia and go on to more complex things," will resemble one he taught at Smith during the war. He will deal with linguistic effects, "from the sound of bells to James Joyce...
...often use impressive words like onomatopoeia...
...word, which has variant spellings, is Hollywood onomatopoeia for lovemaking in the "Latin" manner...
...members were all reading from different scores, raised a cacophonous din. Sour was the note from Maryland, where Robert Alphonso Taft withdrew in pique before the rambunctious invasion of Tom Dewey. Liberal Republicans in the East, to whom the name of Pennsylvania Boss Joseph N. Pew Jr. is pure onomatopoeia, made beckoning sounds to a strayed Democrat, Wendell Willkie...