ngggh.

n.  a grunt of physical exertion, as in The Pope’s Rhinoceros: A Novel by Lawrence Norfolk; see also ngggggh.

nggghhhh.

adv.  now, as spoken by someone whose mouth is sealed with fear over a massive snake “with yellow, swirling slits for eyes and huge fangs” (Robert Asprin, Myth-Ion Improbable).

nggh.

n.  a garbled utterance, as said while kissing someone in the novel Kiss My—Left Behind by Earl Lee.


n.  a groan of exasperation, as when one can’t pull one’s hand out from under a pile of office boxes in the comic strip “PvP” by Scott R. Kurtz.


pro.  what, as spoken by someone being bothered.

<[S]he went straight down the hall to Laurent’s room and knocked.  “Nggh?” he said.  —Tom Clancy, Safe House.>

ngh.

adv.  in “Grunt, a dialect of English passed on from father to son ... ‘Ngh’ means ‘No thanks, I don’t care for any more pot roast’” (James Dale, Rules For Wives).


interj.  a “dull and ugly sound” made by someone who “could not speak, did not want to, did not want to try” (Meredith Ann Pierce, The Pearl of the Soul of the World); see also mmh.


interj.  a groan, as in the novel The Novice by Trudi Canavan.

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