fshzt.

n.  the sound of electrical interference, as in “Evolutions” by Travis Hogbin.

fsshh.

n.  a whoosh of air.

<Once the [airplane’s] cabin door closes behind you with a pneumatic fsshh, it’s just like when you went away to camp, except then you still believed that eating s'mores and throwing a baseball badly could build character.  —Christian Moerk, “Wages of Fear,” Variety.> <It was just before Christmas when Pauline and John Tomasello first heard a curious noise coming from the basement of their 20-year-old home.  Fsshh.  Fsshh.  Fsshh.  Their water pump was sucking air.  —Jack Kaskey, “Wells the Latest Victim as Drought Dries Region,” The Press of Atlantic City.>

n.  the spraying of an aerosol can.

<I grabbed my can of Raid and aimed and fired.  Fsshh!  —Chloe, “The Battle,” geocities.com/chloecorner>

fsshhhhh.

n.  the rushing sound of a running faucet, as in the graphic novel Uzumaki 2 by Junji Ito.

fssht fssht fssht.

n.  the sound of “the wind swishing” (D.W. Winnicott, quoted in Squiggles and Spaces: Revisiting the Work of D.W. Winnicott by Mario Bertolini); see also fssht-fssht-fssht.

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