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G
G-Sch.
n.  a gentle alien Luminoth who “sleeps in a flooded temple,” in the video game “Metroid Prime 2: Echoes.”


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


ggg.
n.  the gulping of a noisy drinker, as described in “More Than Words” by the New Zealand Ministry of Education.


n.  the sound of the letter g, as described in “Beginning Literacy Design” by Jennifer Kate Hall; see also gggg.


gggg.
n.  the sound of the letter g; see also ggg.

<You’ll be looking for the gggg sound soon enough.  —Peggy Kaye, Games for Learning: Ten Minutes a Day to Help Your Child Do Well in School, From Kindergarten to Third Grade.>

gggg-rrrr.
n.  the growl of a dog.

<[T]he hair on the back of her spine bristled and the Great Dog went “Gggg-rrrr.”  —Pat Conroy, Beach Music.>

ggggg.
n.  a baby’s giggle, as described in the novel Edwin Mullhouse by Steven Millhauser; see also kkkkk, kkkkkk.



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