brrrrrrr.

interj.  a shivery response to a chilling concept.

<The rain comes a-poundin’ and the wind comes a-screamin’ for days on end, and you have no light but candles.  Brrrrrrr!  It shivers me somethin’ terrible to even think on it.  —Betty J. Vickers, Walkin’ the Floor.> <If Freud and Marx and Nietzsche and Feuerbach and their followers are right, however, there ... is no heaven.  Only rearrangements of valueless matter in a mostly empty universe where everything happens by randomness and chance.  Brrrrrrr.  —Luis Palau, God Is Relevant: Finding Strength and Peace in Today’s World.>

interj.  an expression that something has gone wrong, as in Good Vibrations: A History of Record Production by Mark Cunningham.


interj.  an expression that the temperature is uncomfortably cold; see also br, brr, brrr, brrrr, brrrrrrrr, rrr, rrrrr.

<[J]ust as he opened his mouth in order to let forth a yell, he gave a shiver and pulled his towel tightly round himself as a sudden draft of cold air caught him unawares.  In the end all he could manage was a loud “Brrrrrrr!”  —Michael Bond, Paddington Treasury.>

interj.  an involuntary shudder of revulsion, as when a corpse flops down into one’s face in the novel Extreme Justice by William Bernhardt.


n.  a raven’s whimper, as in Snow Ravens by Bruno Hachler.


n.  a vocal disapproval of damp, cold weather.

<He got out of the Tempo, hurried up the steps, and crossed the wide veranda, voicing his objection to the chilly air as he went: “Brrrrrrr.”  —Dean Koontz, Strangers.>

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