HHHH.

interj.  a wordless cry of disbelief, as at being called a “jackass” in Travels With a Kayak by Whit Deschner.

hhhh.

interj.  an expression of regret.

<“Hhhh,” she breathed in sharply through her teeth.  The animal was a deer, not a panther or wolf.  It had only been grazing and was now shot through the chest.  She dropped to her knees and lay the gun on the ground.  —Cynthia Lamb, Brigid’s Charge.>

interj.  huh, as in the play Pickling by Suzan-Lori Parks (The America Play and Other Works).


n.  a “haunting sigh” (Brad Meltzer, The First Counsel).


n.  a “resigned laugh,” as discussed in The Psychiatric Team and the Social Definition of Schizophrenia: An Anthropological Study of Person and Illness by Rob Barrett and Peter J. Tyrer.


n.  the sound of a hush growing over a crowd, as “at the amazing sight of Periwinkle Fairies riding [thirty] water-spiders” in Fairies of Bladderwhack Pond by Debbie Bishop.


n.  the sound of someone hyperventilating.

<Her eyes are wide, begging for help.  “Hhhh...”  Gripping her chest, she lets out a long, protracted gasp and crumples to the floor.  —Brad Meltzer, The Zero Game.>

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