hhhh.

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.>

v.  to inhale deeply, as when smoking.

<The girl started giggling.  “Inhaling, breathing in deep, hhhh.”  Dan slowly brought the joint to his lips.  Smoke curled up and burned his eyes.  “Hhhh,” said the girl.  “I’ll try once, that’s all” [Dan said].  “Hhhh!”  She was close to a giggling fit.  “Just once.”  Dan closed his eyes.  Hhhh!  Immediately he was gasping and choking for air.  —Charles Deemer, “The Man Who Grew a Beard,” Selected Stories.>

hhhh hhh hhh.

n.  wheezing, asthmatic breaths, as described in the book In the Shadow of Illness by Myra Bluebond-Langner; see also hhhh.

hhhh-mmmmmnnn.

interj.  an ecstatic hum, as by someone “deep in the throes of hedonistic backscratching” (Lance H.K. Secretan, The Way of the Tiger: Gentle Wisdom for Turbulent Times).

hhhhh.

n.  a cough, as when choking from the smoke of a firepot in the play Lysistrata by Aristophanes.

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