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kshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
n.  an electronic guitar chord turned to pure noise by too much volume, as described by Joe Thrasher, Guitarists.net.


ksn.
n.  a seeker or explorer in the novel The FarCall by RedTurtle.


ksr.
n.  a goblin’s pet monster, with powerful muscles, gray and brown mottled fur, and a bushy tail as long as its body.

<Rezrex would kill him—maybe quickly by pushing him off the cliff, maybe slowly in the ksr pit.  —T. H. Lain, The Savage Caves.>

kssh kssh ksshhh.
n.  the beating of owls’ wings.

<From overhead came a frenzied flutter, followed by a harsh kssh! kssh! ksshhh!  The patrolman glanced up and saw, framed against the starlit sky, two winged silhouettes—the baby owl’s parents, anxiously circling their frightened fledgling.  —Carl Hiaasen, Hoot.>

kssh ksssh.
n.  the patter of deer running through the woods.

<They heard me and kssh ksssh and away they went.  —Chris Haynie, quoted in Revolution on Canvas: Poetry From the Indie Music Scene by Rich Balling.>


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