grrrr.

n.  a growl of animal lust.

<But what captivated her most was the raw, overt male sexuality he oozed. ... Vane moved with the fluid grace of a predator, with his head held low as if ready to attack.  Grrrr, but the man was a fetching beast.  —Sherrilyn Kenyon, Night Embrace.>

n.  a growl of determination, as described in The Big Bing: Black Holes of Time Management, Gaseous Executive Bodies, Exploding Careers, and Other Theories on the Origins of the Business Universe by Stanley Bing.


n.  a lion’s roar, as described in Little Big Book For God’s Children by Lena Tabori.


n.  a snarl of impatience.

<“Grrrr!” snarled Scaurus Princeps Senatus, not at Marius or Sulla, but at circumstances.  —Colleen McCullough, The First Man in Rome.>

n.  an angry growl, as in How to Take the Grrrr Out of Anger by Elizabeth Verdick and Marjorie Lisovskis.


n.  the fierce snarl of a fighting dog, as in the novel Voyager by Diana Gabaldon; the “low, threatening” growl of a cyborg dog, as in the novel Then Comes Marriage by Christie Ridgway.


n.  the growl of a rhinoceros, as in A Porcupine Named Fluffy by Helen Lester.


n.  the guttural, toad-like trill of the Southern Bentbill bird, as described in A Guide to the Birds of Panama by Robert S. Ridgely.

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