crrrk.

n.  a mother hen’s warning signal that danger is afoot.

<When there is danger of hawks or owls or cats or anything around, the hen gives out a warning signal.  She’ll get up somewhere and make a squawking noise.  Then she says, “Crrrk, crrrk, crrrk,” in a low-pitched voice.  The chicks all get under her, or all stand at attention.  —Minnie Rose Lovgreen, Minnie Rose Lovgreen’s Recipe for Raising Chickens.>

n.  a sound made by an intelligent insectlike “Thranx” poet named Desvendapur, in the novel Phylogenesis: Book One of The Founding of the Commonwealth by Alan Dean Foster.

<“[T]hey are, crrrk, carrying out limited studies of their own far, far from here.  —Alan Dean Foster, Phylogenesis: Book One of The Founding of the Commonwealth.>

crrrkkkk.

n.  the sound of a hatching seed from Mars, as described in 365 Bedtime Stories by Christine Allison.

crrrrk.

n.  the noise of radio static.

<‘We’re crrrrk doing the best we crrrrk,’ came the reply.  —Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens.>

crtr.

n.  the title of a visual poem by Mike Cannell.

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