hrrrk.

n.  the growl of someone having been bitten by the Wolfman, as transcribed in the comic strip “PvP” by Scott R. Kurtz; see also nngh, snrrrl.

hrrrmph.

n.  the snort of a unicorn.

<I offered it my apple it looked at me with big silver eyes and then it snorted like this, hrrrmph, and ran away over the hill.  —Neil Gaiman, “Desert Wind,” Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions.>

hrrrr.

interj.  a musical growl in a maritime ceremony.

<Presently we heard the Captain call out at the top of his voice Ease her—Stop her—Let go the Anchor, hrrrr ... and as the chain runs out, the vessel comes proudly up against the bank of the river to receive us.  —Lesley Adkins, Empires of the Plain: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon.>

n.  a thoughtful sound one makes while scanning a page for information.

<“Hrrrr...”  Magdalena paged through her guidebook.  —Thomas Harlan, House of Reeds.>

hrrrrr.

n.  a grunt in the Wookie language of the Star Wars films, as transcribed in the comic strip “PvP” by Scott R. Kurtz; see also grnnnk, mrr.

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