onomatopoeic

It's an onomatopoeic term for briefly sounding a horn, but I almost never hear it used for that.

Barbarian has it's roots in βάρβαρος, an ancient Greek onomatopoeic for "people who go bar bar bar", or people who don't speak Greek.

I'm convinced that the definition of the word "glitch" is somewhat onomatopoeic.

What do you think about theories like Vilayanur Ramachandran's that some words exist because they are sort of onomatopoeic?

I don't know about in American, but in the UK it's not that "zed" is onomatopoeic, it's "zzz" which is just the sound a z makes in a word, not "zedzedzed" or "zeezeezee".

It’s worth noting that “universal noise of fucking” is a backronym—the word was originally onomatopoeic.

It's onomatopoeic, and capitalised not to indicate an acronym, but for emphasis.

Interestingly, Italian has 'mosca' for fly, too, but mosquitos are "zanzare", which is onomatopoeic.

'Pizza profitable' has a nice onomatopoeic quality though.

"Plosive" is an onomatopoeic... And "onomatopoeic" is a word that's kind of fun to use exactly because there's nothing onomatopoeic about it.

I have a friend who, every time he tell someone what onomatopoeia means, points out that, oddly enough, onomatopoeia is not itself onomatopoeic.