dr’r’r’r’r’r’r’r’r’r’r.

n.  the “rapid rattling” of the agitated Black-eared Shrike Babbler, as described in A Guide to the Birds of Southeast Asia by Craig Robson.

drhds.

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

drmpf.

n.  an incomprehensible utterance of pain, from the ubiquitous German joke about a man mistakenly diagnosed with hemorrhoids who tells the proctologist, “get someone with longer fingers—I have a sore throat!”  See also hgmmm, hlmpfmr, hmmgmr.

Drrr.

n.  a mispronunciation of the title “Dr.”

<Lynne told her physician that she wanted to be referred to as Ms. Atkinson.  He sarcastically replied, “If you are Ms., then call me Drrr.  —Pamela E. Butler, Self-Assertion for Women.>

drrr.

n.  door, as spoken by someone “slurring his words out of pure exhaustion,” as in the novel Doona by Anne McCaffrey.

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