... of the hands,quiverrefers to shaking, and puff to smoking.Fourth, the top five most frequent and most onomatopoeic words in the spoken corpus (pop, bash, bounce, tick and clash) are totally ... and most onomatopoeic words in written English. Chapter 6 will compare the characteristics of the most frequent and mostonomatopoeic words in spokenandwritten corpus, in order to examine whether ... re-stated).(6)Gitai-onomatopoeia as verbs and nounsa. to lurch / a lurchb. to waddle / a waddlec. to nibble / a nibbled. to flash / a flashe. to ripple / a ripple(Tamori and Schourup 1999: 100)...