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grrk.
interj.  a toad’s croaky exclamation.

<“I punish you when the time comes.  Grrk!”  —Brian Jacques, Salamandastron.>

grrk grrk.
n.  the low-pitched strong chatter of the Broad-Billed Hummingbird, as described in Hummingbirds: A Wildlife Handbook by Kim Long.


grrk grrrk grrk.
n.  the creaking of a floorboard.

<[T]here was another noise—the familiar grrk grrrk grrk of [the wombat] Mothball scratching her back on the floor beam under my bed.  —Jackie French, “Mothball News,” JackieFrench.com.>

grrkkssh.
n.  the sound of flesh ripped apart by a sword, as in the graphic novel Falcon Twin by Brenden Mecleary.



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