grrr-vrrrrt.

n.  the sound of the floor spiraling open and a dragon ship rising up from below, as in Secrets of Droon #18 by Tony Abbott.

grrrk.

n.  the sound of a computer function being interrupted.

<‘Grrrk,’ the computer said as it was interrupted.  —Harry Harrison, The Stainless Steel Ray Joins the Circus.>

grrrk grrrk.

n.  the croaking call of the Spot-Flanked Barbet bird, as described in Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania by Dale A. Zimmerman.

grrrp.

n.  a variation of “group,” as in the “Jzzz Grrrp” division of the Erskine College Music Department’s Sinfonia wind ensemble.

grrrr.

adj.  fierce.

<“You did it, Lacey!” Stella squealed.  “You are totally grrrr!”  —Ellen Byerrum, Killer Hair.>

interj.  a grumble from someone forgetting for a moment to be affable, as in the novel Guardian of the Horizon by Elizabeth Peters.


n.  a child’s joyous shout, as discussed in Your Child’s Growing Mind: Brain Development and Learning From Birth to Adolescence by Jane Healy.

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