NNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH.

interj.  an extended moan of “abdominal pain, like the kind caused by sodomy” in pornographic prose by hack writers trying to fill up pages, as discussed in The Florence King Reader by Florence King; see ngh.

nnnnnnnnn.

n.  a desperate hum, as made by someone mistakenly believed to be dead who is about to undergo an autopsy; see also nnnnnnn.

<He lifts my head, the pads of his fingers on my cheekbones, and I hum desperately—Nnnnnnnnn—knowing that he can’t possibly hear me over Keith Richards’ screaming guitar but hoping he may feel the sound vibrating in my nasal passages. —Robert Bloch, Robert Bloch’s Psychos.>

n.  a profoundly empty hum.

<What could have been mistaken for serenity from the top of the bank now looked like what it really was: vacuity, emptiness.  When he took hold of her, the smoothness of her face was replaced by a dim and fretful smile; her mouth quivered as if she felt distant pain, and an almost formless sound of negation came from her mouth: “Nnnnnnnnn—”  —Stephen King, Wizard and Glass.>

n.  the “snore-like croaking” call of the Red-fronted Tinkerbird, as described in Toucans, Barbets and Honeyguides: Ramphastidae, Capitonidae and Indicatoridae by Lester L. Short.

nnnnnnnnnn.

(also nnnnnn-nnn.)  n.  a “strangling, ripping scream ... pull[ing] up from the root of [one’s] belly” that signals the beginning of “lunacy” (Stephen King, The Gunslinger).

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