NNNNNNN.

n.  a growl of enraged nonsense.

<[H]e growls into the very fertile rain-clogged soil some disjointed noises, entreaties beseechings nonwords and nonsense: NNNNNNN.  —Niall Griffiths, Sheepshagger: A Novel.>

nnnnnnn.

n.  a muttering by a thirsty person with a mouth so dry that his tongue has stuck to the roof of his mouth.

<“Nnnnnnn ...”  It was the best my stuck tongue could do.  —Robert Lipsyte, One Fat Summer.>

n.  an ambiguous reply by a sleepy person, as in the novel In a Land of Plenty by Tim Pears.


n.  an entreaty of a baffling nature.

<“Do you need directions?” I repeated a bit louder.  This time he appeared to be carefully considering my question, slowly closing his wrinkled eyes as if to envision when the planets would be in alignment.  “Nnnnnnn,” he murmured.  “Nnnnnnn.”  —Betty B. Youngs, Gifts of the Heart: Stories that Celebrate Life’s Defining Moments.>

n.  the sound of the letter n; see also nnn, nnnn, NNNN, nnnnn, nnnnnn, nnnnnnn.

<Nanny Nuthatch from Nottingham learned to play the nutcracker as a little girl, and she can make it say the sound of the letter n which is “nnnnnnn.”  —Elizabeth Crosby Stull, Let's Read: A Complete Month-by-Month Activities Program for Beginning Readers.>

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