brrm-brrm.

n.  the throbbing or growling of a motorcycle engine.

<Six or eight old women abandoned their aluminum-can-filled shopping carts to hop bowlegged across the grass, growling brrm-brrm in imitation of motorcycle engines.  —Tim Powers, Expiration Date.> <If he had been working for a big company [Akira Suzuki] would have had to sit down on the other side of the table from the local people and Exchange Views, which would have meant an exchange of names.  The same name as the motor-cycle: Oh yes, most amusing.  Brrm!  Brrm!  Ha ha.  The famous English sense of humour, in Suzuki’s experience, consisted largely of asking you to share their delight at a mortal insult.  —Clive James, Brrm! Brrm!>

brrnnngg.

(also brnng.)  n.  the ringing of a telephone, as in the graphic novel Destiny’s Eyes by Gary Colcombe; see also brrrnng.


n.  the ringing of a school bell; see also rrrr rrrr.

<Brrnnngg!  The bell rang.  Priscilla hurried to her chair.  —Kathleen Leverich, Best Enemies.>

brrp.

(also brrrrrrrp.)  n.  the crackling of an automatic rifle firing.

<I pulled the trigger on full auto!  Brrrrrrrp!  Brrp!  Brrp!  —Ed Kugler, Dead Center: A Marine Sniper’s Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War.>

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