ghghghgh.

v.  to constrict.

<[A]ll of a sudden his pupils go ghghghgh and shrink in disgust.  —Dacia Maraini, Woman at War.>

ghghghnnn.

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

ghrrr.

n.  a word spoken by the Star Wars character Chewbacca, as described in “Leia’s Light Sabre” by Steph Magawan.

ghrrrr.

n.  a growl “like a fearful caged wild animal,” of someone both drunk and homesick, as in Psalm at Journey’s End: A Novel by Erik Fosnes Hansen.


n.  the growl of a leopard, as described in “Storytelling Workshop” by Gerald Fierst.

ghrrrrr.

n.  the gurgling call of the Little Bittern bird during breeding, as described in Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania by Dale A. Zimmerman.

gkkk.

interj.  a strangled gasp of pain, as in the comic book Flash #158 by Pelletier.

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