fffffff.

n.  the sound of the letter f, as in the novel Attaboy, Sam! by Lois Lowry; see also fff, ffff.

fffft.

interj.  an expression of dismissal.

<Once, when one of her friends protested her speaking of me this way [as a pathetic creature] within my hearing—and of my parents and family—she said, “Fffft.  If you speak at all rapidly, she understands nothing.”  —Sue Miller, The World Below.>

interj.  an ironic, dismissive huff.

<“Work, you can rely on,” she said.  “Love ... fffft.”  —Heidi Jon Schmidt, The Bride of Catastrophe: A Novel.>

ffffzzzzzz.

n.  a hiss of steam, as when hot metal is dipped in water, in the novel The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke; see also fzzzzz.

fffmmm.

interj.  a moan of protest, as by someone with a traumatized, bloody nose in the novel The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams.

fffrrrrrr.

n.  a noise granting one’s exit of a nursery.

<I understood.  If I was to leave the nursery it would only be after a performance of the noise: fffrrrrrr.  —Edward Carey, Observatory Mansions: A Novel.>

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