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- b’chtsch.
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n. the thin, high-pitched ringing of a snare drum, as described by the band Backwash in a “Bandorama” interview (bandorama.ch).
- b-b-b-b-b.
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n. a sound made by a baby, meaning unknown, as described in the novel Edwin Mullhouse by Steven Millhauser.
- b-bb-bbbb.
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n. a baby’s babble, presumably asking to blow soap bubbles; see also bbbbb.
| <Harry said, “B-bb-bbb,” which gave me the idea of blowing bubbles—possibly his intent in the first place, you never knew. —Patricia Gaffney, Circle of Three: A Novel.> |
- B-Stl.
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n. a gallant alien Luminoth who “lies deep in the fortress of a dry land,” in the video game “Metroid Prime 2: Echoes.”
- bb.
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n. in harmonica notation, a note that is “bent” two half steps down (made to sound lower by blocking part of the airway with one’s tongue), as discussed in Blues & Rock Harp Positions Made Easy by David Harp.
- Bbb.
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n. a shorthand notation used by musician Gustav Mahler in his manuscripts “to identify [thematic] elements that he would repeat or rework later in the compositional process” (James L. Zychowicz, Mahler’s Fourth Symphony).
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