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Onomatopoeia.
An onomatopoeia is a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes. Onomatopoeia (as an uncountable noun) refers to the property of such words.
For animal sounds, words like quack (duck), bark (dog), roar (lion) and meow (cat) are typically used in English. Some of these words are used both as nouns and as verbs.
(Source: Wikipedia)
Dilettante.
dil·et·tante noun \ˈdi-lə-ˌtänt, -ˌtant; ˌdi-lə-ˈ\
1: an admirer or lover of the arts. 2: a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge.
Examples of DILETTANTE
- You can always tell a true expert from a dilettante.
- <she writes about art not from the point of view of an artist but from that of a committed dilettante>
