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Grandiloquence is a word that sounds like what it is. Just like the word pungent and some obscenities - the sound the word makes evokes the definition. What is the word that describes this effect? Sounds-like-what-it-is is a little unwieldly.
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are you looking for something other than onomatopoeia? and welcome to you, Maurice! 
formerly known as etaoin...
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From Dictionarty of Difficult words:
euonymous
a. appropriately named. euonymy, n.
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Which is itself eponymous, havinmg been named for the friar who first came up with the concept:
euonymous monk
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Whose brother was a musician called Felonious Monk.
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a musician called Felonious Monk.A musician? How 'bout a thief?
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a musician called Felonious Monk.
A musician? How 'bout a thief?
No, no, not a thief, a murderer...his music just slayed you. People were dying to hear it... It was the absolute end!
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As in : The annoucer had a mellifluous voice.
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Thelonius!
Many challenge themselves to play the late
Monk's music as he would envision it, but most
jazz musicians admit that this is near impossible.
Then there was the man - the man most have
called eccentric. But eccentric only begins to
describe the myth that was Thelonius Monk.
Once asked where he would live besides Los
Angeles and New York, he simply and
sincerely replied, "The moon."
There are stories of his arrogance, his solitude,
his mono-syllabic conversations, his prolonged
pensiveness, his eloquent speeches. The fact
remains that very few people ever were able to
get a firm grasp on the character that was
Thelonius Monk.
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Welcome to you, 'Maurice'. You have one of the most interesting bios ever.
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