pprrpffrrppffff.

n.  an expression meaning “I have done,” from Ulysses by James Joyce.

pr’k.

n.  “the rumble of long-remembered thunder and streaks of lightning split[ting] the skies” as “the sky clears its throat” (Jared Lobdell, “The Last Holosong of Christopher Lightning,” Free Space); see also n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n, pr’k-nnnnnnnn.

pr’k-nnnnnnnn.

n.  the sound of the “sky clear[ing] its throat” with rolling thunder; the sound of a spaceship launch (Jared Lobdell, “The Last Holosong of Christopher Lightning,” Free Space); see also pr’k, n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n.

pr-r-r.

n.  a purring sound.

<‘Wo-o’ shouted Kal to his own team, knowing that this was the English for ‘pr-r-r!’  —Johan Bojer, The Emigrants.>

prpr prprprp.

n.  the purring of a cat, as described by Leda Mesen in Wishes, Lies, and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry by Kenneth Koch.

prrp.

n.  the call of the Chestnut-Banded Plover bird, as described in Birds of Southern Africa by Ian Sinclair.

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