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interj.  an interjection by a merchant from the imaginary “Lanternland,” as in the novel Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais.

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n.  the cricket-like chirping and snorting of “some hydra-shaped creature with long spindly limbs, planted upsidedown in a snow bank” (Tom Trainor, Rocker Heaven).

rr-rrr-rrrr.

n.  a tawny owl’s joyful hoot.

<When something happened that was delightful to it the owl made a characteristic sound, a high-pitched rr-rrr-rrrr, like a bell.  At the same time it closed its eyes.  —Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home: And Other Unexplained Powers of Animals by Rupert Sheldrake.>

rrRRRrrrrrr.

n.  a police siren.

<Just then—as they say in children’s books—just then, there was a wonderful sound.  Cutting through the night came the, blissfully not-too-distant, rrRRRrrrrrr of a police car flicking its siren on for just a moment as an announcement that it was on its way.  —Mil Millington, A Certain Chemistry: A Novel.>

rrc.

n.  the title of a visual poem by Mike Cannell.

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