n. a German word for the “quiet, metallic” sound of an automobile’s automatic window mechanism (Timm Schuch, “Meine Begleiter.”)
n. a German word for the buzzing of a bee.
n. a German word for the sound of static, as in “Alarm! Der kleine Dicke ist da” by Von Weiland Freund.
n. a Spanish word for the sound of a whisper, as in “La Aventura de Hermenegildo.”
Bssss.
n. the title of a German animated film short by Felix Gönnert (1999).
bssss-bzzzz.
n. the sound of a drum roll.
<Finney nods his head and shakes, and beats his hands as though holding drumsticks while imitating a drum roll, “Bssss-bzzzz.” —Tag Gallagher, John Ford: The Man and His Films.>
bttft.
n. the choking sound of someone foaming at the mouth, as when watching two Matrix film trailers simultaneously in the comic strip “PvP” by Scott R. Kurtz.
Bvhg.
n. an island in the Yap region of Micronesia.
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