nnnnnnn zzzzzzzz.

n.  the snore of a coyote, as described in Coyote Stories for Children: Tales from Native America by Susan Strauss.

nnnnnnnn.

n.  a line in the play In the Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks, “the sound of something I shouldn’t have done” (Susan Letzler Cole, Playwrights in Rehearsal: The Seduction of Company).


n.  a muffled moan of passion.

<[T]he darkness was clear enough to see that the bed was too filled for it to be just one person.  There was talking that wasn’t talking, exactly, and a rearrangement of shapes under the blanket.  A long, muffled sound that went “nnnnnnnn.”  —Carol Anshaw, Lucky in the Corner: A Novel.>

NnnnNnnn.

n.  the cry of a newly weaned baby, “not a full-blooded roar ... but NnnnNnnn like an insect trapped against glass” (Marian Eldridge, “The Woman at the Window,” Australian Literature: An Anthology of Writing from the Land Down Under).

NNNNNNNN.

n.  the whine of a police siren.

<And tonight, of all nights, after a week of not bothering him, the police decide to come after Slothrop.  Oh yes, yes indeed NNNNNNNN Good Evening Tyrone Slothrop We Have Been Waiting For You.  —Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow.>

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