brrrrm.

(also brrrm.)  n.  the sliding tones of a trombone glissando.

<What he wouldn’t give for the sound of the ODJB playing Tiger Rag right now.  He conjured the sound in his head, and capered round the shabby confines of the room, imitating the fruity trombone glissando.  “Hold that tiger ... brrrrm, hold that tiger ... brrrm, hold that tiger.”  —Ian Morson, “There Would Have Been Murder,” The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits: Murder Mysteries from the Age of Bright Young Things.>

brrrrr.

n.  the hum of a telephone dial tone, as described in the novel Tooth and Nail by Ian Rankin.


n.  the prolonged call of the skulking Slaty Spinetail bird, as described in A Guide to the Birds of Panama by Robert S. Ridgely.

brrrrrr.

n.  the sound of an automobile engine.

<If he had been able to hear, he would have heard, in the nearly perfect silence, the sound of Tom Cullen’s imagination at work—the lip-vibrating brrrrrr as he drove the cars onto the Fisher-Price tarmac ... the ssshhhhhhh as the lift inside went up and down.  —Stephen King, The Stand: Expanded Edition.>

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