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hhhnnnnnggggghhh.
n.  an ambiguous response, as when one is too taken aback to formulate a clearly positive answer.

<The Sex God had landed at my door.  I was wearing my Teletubby pajamas.  He said “Hi.”  I said “Hhhnnnnnggggghhh.”  —Louise Rennison, Confessions of Georgia Nicholson.>

hhrnn.
n.  a groan from a zombie hungry for brains, as in the comic strip “PvP” by Scott R. Kurtz.


hhrrkkrk.
n.  the sound of “serious respiratory distress,” as in the graphic novel ShadowFall by Kaichi Satake; see also sshhlllrrr.


hjckrrh.
interj.  an exclamation of grief.

<These words were followed by a very long silence, broken only by an occasional exclamation of ‘Hjckrrh!’ from the Gryphon, and the constant heavy sobbing of the Mock Turtle.  —Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.>

hkkk.
n.  the sound of having one’s breath knocked out from an impact to the back, as in the comic book Dv8 #5 by Humberto Ramos and Sal Regla.


hksssshhhhhh.
n.  a hiss made by a computer modem, as in the comic strip “PvP” by Scott R. Kurtz.



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