RRRRRRR.

n.  a warning scream of a chickaree.

<A golden eagle came into view, his wings motionless as he rode the air current above the river.  Here was a real enemy.  “RRRRRRR!” [the chickaree] warned.  Every bird stopped what he was doing and sat perfectly still.  Eagles see movement.  Birds somehow know that if they do not move, eagles and other predators will not see them.  —Jean Craighead George, Spring Moon.>

rrrrrrr.

n.  an audible shudder of horror.

<“Ever since I saw E.T. I’ve had a horror of something being in my closet.  Imagine standing there trying to decide what you’re going to wear, and long skinny fingers creep out of your dresses. Rrrrrrr.”  She shuddered.  —Betsy Byars, The Computer Nut.>

n.  an enraged, dog-like growl, likened to villainess Cruella De Vil (Judith Gould, The Greek Villa).

<Auntie Mame morph[ed] into Cruella De Vil.  “Rrrrrrr!  That ... that twat!”  Urania spat, letting loose with everything she’d kept stifled all day.  “That hideous, big-jawed, culture-starved idiot of a Bronx-born twat!  Who the hell does she think she is, getting off on trying to shove her coven of ghostwriters on me?  —Judith Gould, The Greek Villa.>

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