mprrr’drrrp.

n.  a cat’s purr.

<Him looking up at me and saying “mprrr’drrrp” when I say his name.  —MzNeco, MysticWicks.com.>

Mr.

n.  a man’s title: Mister.

mrmph.

interj.  a questioning sound.

<“Do you know what the first thing I’m going to do when we get home is, Rowdy?”  “Mrmph...”  “I’m going to have you kill that horrid dog Felix loved so much.”  —Paul Di Filippo, Fractal Paisleys.>

n.  a disoriented murmur, as by someone startled awake in The Nirvana Blues: A Novel by John Nichols.

<“Mrmph.”  The indistinct gurgle might have meant anything: acknowledgment, rage, a simple snore.  Damn, Jane thought.  I need him awake, and he sounds hung over.  —Deborah Grabien, The Weaver and the Factory Maid.>

n.  the purr of a fire-lizard-like “watch-wher” in the novel Dragon’s Kin by Anne McCaffrey and Todd J. McCaffrey.

mrmr.

(also mrr.)  n.  a murmur of conversation, as in the graphic novel Uzumaki 2 by Junji Ito.

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