grr.

n.  a wolf-like growl, as in The Carnivorous Carnival: A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 9 by Lemony Snicket; see also grrr.

grr blff mmrr.

n.  a fretful mumble.

<His head is bowed sulkily over the reins, and he is mumbling truculent sentiments to his knees, and when I ask if he will take us back to Piccadilly, he waves us in with a fretful swipe of his hand.  —Grr, blff, mmrr.  This is what we have reduced him to.  No remonstrance, no litany—just consonants.  It will take a handsome sum indeed to restore those soliloquies of woe.  —Louis Bayard, Mr. Timothy.>

grr grr.

n.  the menacing roar of a gorilla.

<He also played “gorilla” with the children.  Donning his oldest clothes, he would lurk behind shrubbery, waiting for one of them to appear.  When one did, he would leap out roaring “Grr!  Grr!” and advance menacing, his arms swinging limply at his sides.  —William Manchester, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932.>

grr-r-r.

n.  the supposed roar of the fantastical Ignormus creature, as in Freddy and the Ignormus  by Walter R. Brooks.

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