fssht-fssht-fssht.

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

fsss.

(also fssss.)  n.  an exhalation of cigarette smoke.

<Pee Wee, gimme some of that.  Thank you.  Ah fssss.  That’s fsss fsss good.  —Buzz Callaway, Specimen Tank.>

fsssh.

n.  the whoosh of elevator doors.

<The soft fsssh of air as the doors closed sounded explosively loud in his ears.  —Alan Dean Foster, The Tar-Aiym Krang.>

fssshhh.

n.  a baby’s pronunciation of “fish.”

<His first word was “fish” at eight mohths, a quiet “fssshhh” sound coming from his lips as he sat with me in the bathtub and held the porcupine fish he had always loved.  —Dawn Prince-Hughes, Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism.>

fsssshk.

n.  the sound of an object falling down, as in the comic “Elf Life, Jan. 28, 2004” by Carson Fire.

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