Noah Webster
Onomatope
ON'OMATOPE,
ON'OMATOPY, noun [Gr. name, and to make.]
1. In grammar and rhetoric, a figure in which words are formed to resemble the sound made by the thing signified; as, to buzz, as bees; to crackle, as burning thorns or brush.
2. A word whose sound corresponds to the sound of the thing signified.