brrr brrrr.

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

<The phone was ringing when I got in.  I sat down at the kitchen table and let it ring.  It stopped and then started again.  Brrr brrrr.  Brrr brrrr.  Brrr brrrr.  Brrr brrrr.  I took the little bugger off the hook.  —Helen Fielding, Cause Celeb.>

brrr brrrrr.

(also brrrr brrrrrr, brrrrrrrr brrrrrrr.)  n.  a go-kart racer’s vocalization for self-empowerment.

<“They pushed with their feet and roared with their throats.”  It is a fact in go-kart racing that the louder you make your voice go, the more “brrr, brrrr” you put into it, the faster you will go.  —Mike McCardell, Back Alley Reporter.>

brrr-brrp.

n.  the nasal call of the Pheasant-tailed Jacana, as described in A Guide to the Birds of Southeast Asia by Craig Robson.

brrrm.

n.  the broken growling or throbbing of an airplane engine.

<Just as darkness fell, a new sound rose above the general cursing.  The short throbbing brrrm, brrrm, brrrm of enemy airplane motors.  —David Kenyon Webster, Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper’s Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich.>

n.  the coughs and purrs of a BMW engine, as in the novel Homgae by Julian Rathbone.

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