chchchchchchchch.

n.  the rapid, squeaky notes of the Carruthers’ Cisticola bird, as described in Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania by Dale A. Zimmerman.

chfff.

n.  a sound made by a six-month-old baby, as described in the novel Edwin Mullhouse by Steven Millhauser.

chhg.

n.  the sound of a tap on a computer keyboard, as in the comic strip “PvP” by Scott R. Kurtz; see also brnnk.

chhhht.

interj.  an expression of disbelief, as when someone starts to bring up an old anecdote (Linda Lee Bukowski, quoted in Bukowski and the Beats: A Commentary on the Beat Generation by Jean-Francois Duval).

chhk.

n.  a ferret’s chatter, as in the comic strip “PvP” by Scott R. Kurtz.


n.  the sharp hit of a chopper “cutting up a bullock” (Zhuang Zhou, Zhuangzi, quoted in Classical Chinese Literature by John Minford.)

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