nnnnggghh.

n.  a grunt of exertion, as when hefting a heavy, lifeless body over one’s shoulder in the comic strip “PvP” by Scott R. Kurtz; see also hnnng, mmmph.

nnnngh.

(also nnnnnhhh.)  n.  the moan of someone thrown to the ground during a fight, as in the graphic novel Falcon Twin by Brenden Mecleary.


interj.  a grunt of pleasure, as in the novel The American Zone by L. Neil Smith.


interj.  the “pained groan” of a nauseous drunkard, as in the novel Twelve Bar Blues


interj.  the moan of someone whose feelings have been hurt, as in the novel Mortal Fear by Scott Ciencin.


n.  a grunted acknowledgment by someone delirious with a 104-degree fever in the novel Hosts by F. Paul Wilson.


n.  the “wincing” sound of “having hit one’s head on something hard” (Timothy Albee, Kaze, Ghost Warrior); see also mmmmmngh.

Nnnnh-Nnnh.

adv.  no.

<A red-haired man in a short white jacket came by offering a plate of tiny crustless sandwiches.  “Nnnnh-Nnnh,” [Andy] Warhol said, looking kind of ashamed.  “He only eats candy,” Jeffrey told Jesse, like Warhol wasn’t really there, or couldn’t talk for himself.  —Jay Cantor, Great Neck.>

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