Hrrl.

n.  a warrior who raided the kingdom of Esti, in the novel The Letterseeker by Stan McDaniel.

<Then Hrrl the Heavyhanded, my own great-great-grandfather’s brother, gathered all the wickfolk and led a clever raid on Esti, thinking he had decoyed King Gorrst’s fleet on a fool’s errand.  —Stan McDaniel, The Letterseeker.>

hrrm.

n.  a sound conveying “an impending verdict,” as in the novel Flashpoint by Loren L. Coleman.


n.  an expression meaning “your guess is as good as mine,” as in the novel The Family Trade by Charles Stross.


n.  the sound of a thoughtful pause, like hmmm.

<But what if... Hrrm.  No, that doesn’t work.  —Ben Brown, “The Apocrypha of Ben Brown.”>

n.  the sound of clearing one’s throat, as while nervously stammering in The Story of Henry Tod: A Blackford Oakes Mystery; see also hrr-hrrm.

hrrmph.

n.  the grating sound of clearing one’s throat.

<Then Farley started to hrrmph and cough and stutter until we realized he was actually crying.  —Molly Moynahan, Stone Garden: A Novel.>

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