brrrrrrr-rrrrr.

n.  a sound used in training hunting dogs.

<A second bird boy picks up the shackled bird, says brrrrrrr-rrrrr (but doesn’t shoot) and lets the bird fly.  —Bill Tarrant, Problem Gun Dogs: How to Identify and Correct Their Faults.>

brrrrrrrp.

(also brrp.)  n.  the sound of an automatic weapon firing.

<He saw me ... there’s the slow motion again.  He started pulling up his rifle.  I pulled the trigger [of my M-14] on full auto!  Brrrrrrrp!  Brrp!  Brrp!  —Ed Kugler, Dead Center: A Marine Sniper’s Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War.>

brrrrrrrr.

interj.  an expression indicating a “sense of a hidden evil lurking within the dark and leafy forest” (Ellen Moore, Good Books Lately: The One-Stop Resource for Book Groups and Other Greedy Readers, describing the ominous mood of the novel The Long Home by William Gay).


interj.  an expression of boredom, as over obsessively drawing “little scratchy lines” in comics (Derf, quoted in Attitude: The New Subversive Political Cartoonists by Ted Rall).


interj.  an expression that the temperature is uncomfortably cold; see also br, brr, brrr, brrrr, brrrrrrr, rrr, rrrrr.

<“That Katani is real cold.”  “Brrrrrrrr,” said Daniel Jordan.  “Where are my hat and mittens?”  —Annie Bryant, Worst Enemies/BestFriends.>

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