rrrrrrrr.

n.  a “low, terrible noise” welling up from a terrified wild cat, “as deep as a tiger’s growl” (Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters #1: The Secret Hour); a cat’s growl, seemingly unapologetic for shedding fur on one’s guitar case (Bill Crider, A Bond with Death: A Professor Sally Good Mystery).


n.  a caterwaul.

<“Rrrrrrrr,” Char said, making that God-awful catfight noise.  —Laurel Handfield, My Diet Starts Tomorrow: A Novel.>

n.  a growl of ravenous hunger, as in the comic book Incredible Hulk Annual #13 by Alan Kupperberg.


n.  a low growl of excitement.

<While I was quietly eating and obsessing, his head dropped back against my leg, sending a frisson clear up to my waist.  Rrrrrrrr.  Was I tempted to get hold of that tawny, wavy hair.  —Haywood Smith, Queen Bee of Mimosa Branch: A Novel.>

n.  the “muffled whimper” of a trembling dormouse, as in W.I.T.C.H.: The Disappearance, by Disney Enterprises; see also rrrrrrr.


n.  the “short throaty” rolling call of the Black-backed Antshrike, as described in A Guide to the Birds of Colombia by Steven L. Hilty.


n.  the “short, rather high pitched rasping ripple” call of the Ratchet-tailed Treepie, as described in Crows and Jays by Steve Madge.


n.  the “short, rather high-pitched rasping, rippling” call of the Ratchet-tailed Treepie, as described in Birds of Thailand by Craig Robson.

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