ggkkgkk.

n.  a strangled sound from someone being choked, as in the graphic novel Falcon Twin by Brenden Mecleary.

gh gh gh.

n.  the croaking of a frog, as described in Marva Collins’ Way by Marva Collins.

gh-hrrr.

n.  the sound of clearing one’s throat.

<She slides the phone back to her mouth and clears her throat.  Her voice sharpens up to a squeak.  “Gh-hrrr, I am not calling you a moron.”  —D.B.C. Pierre, Vernon God Little.>

ghdkdghk.

n.  the title of a visual poem by Mike Cannell.

ghghgh.

n.  a strangled laugh; a chuckle, as in The Letters of Kingsley Amis by Zachary Leader.


n.  an alternate spelling of the word puff: pronounce “gh” as in “hiccough,” as in “Edinburgh,” and as in “laugh” (Ralph Philip Boas, Jr., Lion Hunting and Other Mathematical Pursuits: A Collection of Mathematics, Verse, and Stories by the Late Ralph P. Boas, Jr.).

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