DJ.

n.  originally an abbreviation for “disc jockey” but now a word unto itself.

dknnnnz.

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

dlrdn.

interj.  an interjection coined by François Rabelais in the novel Gargantua and Pantagruel, spoken by a native of the imaginary “Lanternland.”

dnnn.

n.  an incoherent response, as from someone intoxicated; see also hnnn.

<“You all right?  You sick or anything, or just drunk?”  “Dnnn,” said Sandra.  —William Kennedy, An Albany Trio.>

Dpfnzzlwrpf.

n.  a fictitious corporation in Chartreuse, New York.

<As you know, we are in the process of a transition here at Dpfnzzlwrpf Inc., as we shift all our perforated swizzle-satchels over to automated denim.  —Jonathan Caws-Elwitt, “Letter to a Customer.”>

dr.

v.  do, as spoken with a mouth filled with toothpaste, as in My Monastery is a Minivan: 35 Stories from a Real Life by Denise Roy.

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