bzzzt.

n.  the sound of a sudden transformation, as at the touch of a button.

<Next year perhaps—BZZZT! and Summerfield becomes an altogether different man.  —Evan S. Connell, Diary of a Rapist.> <It’s only been in the last few years that Mother has been ... unstable.  She hit fifty, and it was like somebody pushed a button.  Bzzzt!  —Mary Daheim, September Mourn: A Bed-And-Breakfast Mystery.>

bzzzt-bzzzt.

n.  the noise of a door buzzer; see also bzzzzt.

<But when the next visitor came to the door and sounded the buzzer, bzzzt-bzzzt, two whole hours had gone by.  —Jane Langton, The Escher Twist: A Homer Kelly Mystery.>

bzzzttt.

n.  the crackle of a person’s body disappearing “through a curtain of energy,” as in the comic book Secret Society of Super-Villains #12 by Mike Vosburg.

BZZZZ.

(also BZZZ, BZZZZZ.)  n.  the buzz of a doorbell; see also bzzzzt.

<[A]t about five-fifteen, I hear a loud BZZZZ.  Someone is at my door.  I choose not to answer it.  It cannot be good news.  “Go away.  I am in a state of suspension.”  BZZZ.  Whoever it is is very determined.  But I am more determined.  “Go away.  You are wasting finger energy pushing that buzzer.”  BZZZZZ.  —David Klass, You Don’t Know Me.>

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