brrp brrp.

n.  the ringing of a telephone; see also brrr brrrr, BRRK BRRK.

<Man (making a ringing sound)  Brrp, brrp.  (picks up phone)  Hello, yes right.  (puts phone down)  —Graham Chapman, The Complete Monty Python’s Flying Circus: All the Words, Volume 1.>

brrp brrp brrp.

n.  a mother hen’s call to gather her chicks.

<She begins to pick up the food and drop it down in front of them.  She calls them.  She says, “Brrp, brrp, brrp, . . . Brrp, brrp, brrp,” in a deep tone, and they all come around her.  —Minnie Rose Lovgreen, Minnie Rose Lovgreen’s Recipe for Raising Chickens.>

n.  the rattle of a World War I plane’s engine warming up.

<The only way the pilot could idle his engine was with the blip switch, causing the characteristic brrp, brrp, brrp sound heard during warm-up and taxiing of many World War I pursuit planes.  —Crocker Snow, Log Book: A Pilot’s Life.>

n.  the short, deafening bursts of an M-16 being fired.

<He reloaded and fired with mechanical determination—brrp, brrp, brrp!  —Robert Crais, The Last Detective.>

brrp brrrpp.

n.  the high-pitched squeak of a shoe’s rubber sole.

<My sneakers squeak, sounding like tiny voices on helium: “brrp ... brrrpp ... messed-up ... screwed-up ... messed-up ... screwed-up.”  —Laurie Halse Anderson, Catalyst.>

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