brrrt.

n.  the sound of blowing one’s nose, as when a man transforms into a woman on the night of the full moon and his mother sobs, “Our son becomes a daughter.  How do I buy him clothes?  What to do?  Brrrt,” in the graphic novel Until the Full Moon Volume 1 by Sanami Matoh.


n.  the whoosh of something being swept away.

<So she took his wing and, brrrt, they split toward the pad.  —Richard Buckley, The Bad-rapping of the Marquis de Sade.>

brrrt brrrt brrrt.

n.  the “cough and sputter” of “heavy-caliber machine guns,” as described in Chechnya Diary: A War Correspondent’s Story of Surviving the War in Chechnya by Thomas Goltz.

brrrt-brrrt.

n.  the sound of an M-16 firing, as described in Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG by John L. Plaster.

brzzzzz.

n.  the screech of bat-sonar, as in the comic book Batman Family #19 by Bulandi.

bsshh.

n.  the choking sound of someone foaming at the mouth, as in the comic strip “PvP” by Scott R. Kurtz; see also blrgh, phlrrt.

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