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n.  Daffy Duck’s imitation of a dog, as in Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist by Chuck Jones.

rrrrrrmmmm.

n.  the sound of pommelling on a sofa in Ulysses by James Joyce.

rrrrrrr.

(also rrrrr.)  n.  a loud snore.

<Rrrrrrr.  What a racket!  Sampath listened to each hostile inhalation.  Even in sleep, he thought, disgusted, his family showed themselves incapable of pleasant displays of consideration.  Self-indulgent as always, they worked their way noisily through their dreams, keeping Sampath, meanwhile, awake and tossing.  —Kiran Desai, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard.>

(also rrrrrr.)  n.  a grumble “under [one’s] breath,” marking the transition from a “pale green spark of surprise” to a “flicker of anger” to a “sudden and very welcome return of humor” (Diane Duane, The Book of Night with Moon).


adj.  fast paced, like the fastest heavy metal music by Metallica; see also RRRRRRR.

<[W]hen we really open up, what’s really there is “rrrrrrr.”  —Jim Murphy, quoted in So What!  The Good, The Mad, and the Ugly: The Official Metallica Illustrated Chronicle by Steffan Chirazi.>

RRRRRRR.

interj.  a pirate’s growl, as described in The History Teacher’s Really Bad Joke Book by Richard Di Giancomo.

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