echoic in English
Their voices are filtered to sound electronically echoic .
Use "echoic" in a sentence
1. Blurt Meaning: "utter suddenly or inadvertently" (usually with out (adv.)), 1570s, probably echoic
2. Clomp Meaning: "to walk as with clogs," 1829, probably echoic or a variant of clump (v.)
3. Cluck Meaning: "to utter the call or cry of a hen," Old English cloccian originally echoic
4. Chirr Meaning: "a shrill, tremulous, rattling sound," echoic of a cricket's chirp or a grasshopper's trill
5. Clangor (n.) "a sharp, metallic, ringing sound," 1590s, from Latin Clangor "sound of trumpets (Virgil), birds (Ovid), etc.," from clangere "to clang," echoic (compare clang).
6. Blare (v.) late 14c., bleren "to wail," possibly from an unrecorded Old English *blæren, or from Middle Dutch bleren "to bleat, cry, bawl, shout." Either way probably echoic
7. blab (v.) mid-15c., Blabben, "to talk idly and foolishly, talk too much," apparently from Middle English noun Blabbe "one who does not control his tongue" (late 13c.), which is probably echoic.
8. Blab (v.) mid-15c., Blabben, "to talk idly and foolishly, talk too much," apparently from Middle English noun Blabbe "one who does not control his tongue" (late 13c.), which is probably echoic
9. Blah (n.) "idle, meaningless talk," 1918, probably echoic; the adjective meaning "bland, dull" is from 1919, perhaps influenced by French blasé "bored, indifferent." The Blahs "depression" is attested by 1966.
10. ME blere, watery, rheumy < bleren, to have watery eyes, akin to Ger plärren, to bawl, cry < IE base * bhlē-, to howl, weep (of echoic orig.) > blare, bleat, L flere, to weep Blear in American …
11. 1200, Curre, a term, usually depreciatory, for a dog, earlier kurdogge; used of vicious dogs and cowardly dogs, mastiffs and terriers, probably from Old Norse kurra or Middle Low German korren both meaning "to growl" and echoic of a growling dog
12. Yes, “Brouhaha” is a real word, meaning “fuss,” “argument” or “ruckus.” “Brouhaha” comes to English directly from French, where it originally meant “noisy chattering.” It is probably what linguists call an “echoic” or “imitative” word, the “haha” in particular imitating the sound of …
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14. Claque (n.) "band of subservient followers," 1860, from French Claque "band of Claqueurs" (a set of men distributed through an audience and hired to applaud the performance or the actors), agent noun from Claquer "to clap" (16c.), echoic (compare clap (v.))
15. Coprolalia (n.) "obsessive use of obscene language, either through mental illness or perversion," 1886, from French coprolalie, coined 1885 by de la Tourette, from copro-"dung, filth" + Greek lalia "talk, prattle, a speaking," from lalein "to speak, prattle," which is of echoic origin.
16. Buffoon (n.) 1540s, "type of pantomime dance;" 1580s, "professional comic fool;" 1590s in the general sense "a clown, a joker;" from French bouffon (16c.), from Italian buffone "jester," from buffa "joke, jest, pleasantry," from buffare "to puff out the cheeks," a comic gesture, of echoic origin
17. Canard (n.) "absurd or fabricated story intended as an imposition," 1851, perhaps 1843, from French Canard "a hoax," literally "a duck" (from Old French quanart, probably echoic of a duck's quack); said by Littré to be from the phrase vendre un Canard à moitié "to half-sell a duck," thus, perhaps from some long-forgotten joke, "to cheat."