k-k-k.

n.  the sound of the letter k; see also kkk, kkkk.

<My mother came from Russia, was stern in spite of herself (and hardest on herself), and never lost the k-k-k sound to her consonants, and never lost the sea tide lilt to her sentences, so every family in our suburban block was slightly frightened of her, and during the height of the Cold War, I’d heard rumors that she was supposed to have been a spy.  —Ira Sadoff, “The Tragic Stiletto of Trabzon,” Ploughshares: The Literary Journal at Emerson College.>

k-k-k-kk—k-k-k-k-kkk-k-k-k.

n.  a stuttering noise generated by a broken computer music program.

<I had this music program that was cool.  Until I broke it by turning up the rhythm tempo too high so that it made an awful “K-K-K-KK—K-K-K-K-KKK-K-K-K” sound.  —U-Magazine.com.>

k-kk-kkkkk.

n.  the answering rattle of the female Swamp Boubou bird, as described in A Guide to the Birds of Western Africa by Ron Demey.

K-tch.

n.  a great hero of Agon and former farmer, in the video game “Metroid Prime 2: Echoes.”

k-tk.

n.  the sound of an autumn leaf brushing the pavement, as described in Snow Music by Lynne Rae Perkins.

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