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frm.
n.  form, written in Roger Bacon’s all-consonant secret code (devised in 1250), as discussed in The Voynich Manuscript by Gerry Kennedy.


frr frr.
n.  the sound a unicorn makes.

<[S]he said o my god now how will we make the unicorn come and just then I heard a voice from Heaven said that the unicorn qui tollis peccata mundis was me and I started jumping around the bushes and crying hip heee frr frr because I was happier than a real unicorn because I had put my horn in the virgin’s lap and this was why Saint Baudolino had called me son et setera but then he forgave me and I caught site of him other times but only if there is plenty of fog or if it isnt bright like to scorch everything.  —Umberto Eco, Baudolino.>

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


frrrrrrp.
n.  a rude noise simulating flatulence.

<I make the noise again with my mouth, frrrrrrpp, but she doesn’t turn around.  —Christopher Livingston, “The Hot Seat.”>

frrt.
n.  the sound of someone on the toilet, as in the comic strip “PvP” by Scott R. Kurtz.



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