brrrm-brrrm.

n.  an unladylike noise.

<Nooty, stop making those brrrm-brrrm noises.  I’m sure nice girls shouldn’t make those kind of noises.  —Terry Pratchett, The Bromeliad Trilogy: Truckers, Diggers, and Wings.>

n.  the sound of a revving motorcycle engine; see also brrrm brrrm.

<Six or eight old women abandoned their aluminum-can-filled shopping carts to hop bowlegged across the grass, growling brrrm-brrrm in imitation of motorcycle engines or howling like police sirens; then all paused at once and, even though they were yards and yards apart and separated by dozens of people, all shouted in unison, “Stop!  You’re on a one-way road to Hell!”  —Tim Powers, Expiration Date.>

brrrnng.

n.  the ringing of a telephone; see also brrnnngg.

<Brrrnng!  The telephone rings loudly, jolting me out of my daydream.  —Lisa Scottoline, Everywhere That Mary Went.>

brrrr.

adj.  overly formal, without warmth of feeling.

<Why talk about the English?  Brrrr...!  —E. M. Forster, A Passage to India.>

interj.  a shudder of dread, as at a fearsome opponent.

<Man and horse both clad in chain mail from head to heels.  Brrrr!  —Colleen McCullough, Caesar: A Novel.>

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