nnzzzzz.

n.  the muted ringing of a cell phone that someone is sitting on, as in the comic strip “PvP” by Scott R. Kurtz.

nrnh.

adv.  a nasal no, as spoken with congested sinuses.

<“Have you ever swum with dolphins, Nick?”  “Nrnh.”  —Christopher Buckley, Thank You for Smoking.>

nrrll mhh.

n.  an incoherent muttering, as spoken with congested sinuses in the novel Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley.

nt.

adv.  not, written in Roger Bacon’s all-consonant secret code (devised in 1250), as discussed in The Voynich Manuscript by Gerry Kennedy.

nth.

adj.  an indeterminate quantity.

<[F]or the nth time in his life he deplored the length of country calls and ended by wrapping himself in hostile silence.  —Giuseppe di Lapedusa, The Leopard.>

adj.  the unknowable “last” in a series of infinite number.

<The writing of any autobiography involves numerous arbitrary decisions about the importance of events, and the writing about a dicelife by a diceperson involves arbitrariness multiplied to the nth degree.  —Luke Rhinehart, The Dice Man.>

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