krsh.

n.  a noncommittal mutter.

<Krsh ... you hold on to ‘em, hih?  —Leo Rosten, “Potch,” anthologized in A Passion for Books: A Book Lover’s Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books by Harold Rabinowitz.>

Krsn.

n.  in Hinduism, the supreme personality of God, described in the Bhagavad Gita.

<Krsn, who is known as Govinda, is the supreme controller.  He has an eternal, blissful, spiritual body.  He is the origin of all.  He has no other origin, for He is the prime cause of all causes.  —Srila Jiva Goswami, Sri Krsna-Sandarbha.>

ks.

n.  the sound of the letter x (Project HappyChild).

kshh.

n.  the raspy “introductory note” of the Brewer’s Blackbird, as described in A Birder's Guide to Minnesota, 4th edition by Kim Eckert.

kshh-kshh-kshh-kshh.

n.  the hissing of a phonograph needle on a player with a broken automatic return, as in the novel Suspicion of Madness by Barbara Parker.

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