hngh.

n.  a suspicious snort, as in the novel Storm Front by Jim Butcher.


n.  an “odd, brief sound.  You couldn’t call it a laugh.  More like a cough” (John Derbyshire, Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream: A Novel).

hngh hngh hngh.

n.  a chuckle.

<I wanted to stay in the spirit world, or even wine and beer, hngh, hngh, hngh.  —Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man.>

n.  heaving breaths; panting “like a hot dog on a sunny day,” as in the novel The Bromeliad Trilogy: Wings by Terry Pratchett.

hnghn.

interj.  in “Grunt, a dialect of English passed on from father to son,” “hnghn” is a noise to be distinguished from “ynuh” (James Dale, Rules For Wives).

hngk.

interj.  a grunt made upon being shot by a gun, as in the graphic novel ShadowFall by Kaichi Satake.

hnh.

interj.  a sound of contempt.

<“Hnh!” my mother huffs in a tone that implies Phil is stupid beyond words.  —Amy Tan, The Kitchen God’s Wife.>

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