onomatopoeia

Updated: June 1, 2025

I had forgotten the power of "stocking" of a "stock-eagle," for that is the meaning of the prefix in the name. The laughing cry of the green woodpecker, or "yaffle," as the bird is by onomatopoeia called in some parts, is regarded as a sign of rain.

Arthur H. Savory - Grain and Chaff from an English Manor