chk-chk.

n.  the sound of a gun trigger.

<Now promise me there’ll be no more (pulling an imaginary trigger) chk-chk! when I’m gone.  —Anton Chekhov, The Seagull.>

n.  the sound of bullets being loaded into a rifle.

<Jay and Henry stood back from the lion-bearing ponderosa and chambered bullets with a chk-chk of metal against metal.  —David Baron, The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature.>

chk-chk-chk.

n. the rhythmic sound of a woodchuck, as discussed in Sparks of Genius: The Thirteen Thinking Tools of the World’s Most Creative People by Robert and Michèle Root-Bernstein.


n.  a squirrel’s warning chatter; see also chk-chk-chk-chk-chkchkchkchkchk.

<At first I imagine it is an agitated squirrel barking at me from the trees, but there is none of the usual follow-up, no chatter, no chk-chk-chk to frighten me away.  Looking up, I quickly discover that I am being watched not by a squirrel but by a black vulture perched in the top of a leafless elm.  —Susan Hanson, Icons of Loss and Grace: Moments from the Natural World.>

n.  the choppy noise of a helicopter, as discussed in Extraterrestrial Visitations: True Accounts of Contact by Preston Dennet.


n.  the nattering of a crow, as described in Broken Ground: A Novel by Kai Maristed.

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