kkkkk kkkkk kkkkk.

n.  white noise, as when one turns a radio dial in the novel Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood.

kkkkkk.

n.  a baby’s giggle; see also kkkkk, ggggg.

<The eeeeee grows louder and switches to a giggling kkkkkk.  —Steven Millhauser, Edwin Mullhouse.>

n.  a strange mechanical noise.

<[Eli was] trying to keep the laughter going, even imitating the way his dream machine worked [a machine whose function was to excrete small, square, metallic turds], his elbows squared up, his head sunk between his shoulders, weird mechanical noises emerging from him—“Kkkkkk, punk!  Kkkkkk, punk!”—as he stiffly moved.  —Sue Miller, While I Was Gone.>

n.  the rattling call of the Yellow-Rumped Tinkerbird, as described in A Guide to the Birds of Western Africa by Ron Demey; see also krrw.


n.  the sound of “the whole world [going] blue” as one transports from one reality to another, as in the novel Cracked Classics #1: Trapped in Transylvania: Dracula by Tony Abbott.


n.  the static of a CB radio.

<He turns the dial.  Receive is what he’ll try.  Kkkkkk.  Then, faintly, a man’s voice: “Is anyone reading me?”  —Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake.>

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