chk chk chk chk.

n.  the harsh chatter of the White-Eyed Starling, “used in aggressive encounters,” as described by Chris Feare in Starlings and Mynas.


n.  the sound of steel plates dropping over windows, as in science fiction movies, discussed in Surviving the Silence: Black Women’s Stories of Rape by Charlotte Pierce-Baker.

chk chk chk-chk.

n.  the “soft dry” rattle of the Buff-Spotted Woodpecker, as described in Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania by Dale A. Zimmerman.

chk-chk.

interj.  a command for a horse to move.

<Now, when you want Sue to go, you give her a nice punch in the middle and make a little chk-chk noise.  To her that means go.  —David Baldacci, Wish You Well.>

n.  a clicking sound made to entertain a baby.

<I looked down at her and I made that little sound out of the side of my mouth, the way you do with babies, chk-chk, like that, chk-chk, and she giggled the way she does when I do that, and then—she winked at me!  —Eric Kraft, Herb ‘N’ Lorna: A Novel.>

n.  the musical sound of wildlife in a hayfield, as described in Prairie Soul: Finding Grace in the Earth Beneath My Feet by Jeffrey A. Lockwood.

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