RRRRRrrrrr.

n.  a grumpy, growled curse, as due to nervous tension.

<[Y]ou always knew when Joaquin was pitching, because you’d be setting there getting dressed, and all of a sudden the door would slam, and he’d come across the room, cursing, “RRRRRrrrrr, let me alone.”  —Peter Golenbock, The Spirit of St. Louis: A History of the St. Louis Cardinals and Browns.>

RRRRRRRRRR.

n.  a noise “like a stick being run along a picket fence,” made by ravens (Jean Craighead George, The Fire Bug Connection).

rrrrrrrrrr.

n.  a purr of excitement, as over “the simultaneous purchase and selling of a security in order to profit from a differential in the price” (Mark Whistler, Trading Pairs: Capturing Profits and Hedging Risk with Statistical Arbitrage Strategies).

<“Rrrrrrrrrr ... arbitrage.”  It sounds sexy, doesn’t it?  Be careful not to fall in love with this savvy beast, for it can cause you to lose your hair with the stress it presents!  —Mark Whistler, Trading Pairs: Capturing Profits and Hedging Risk with Statistical Arbitrage Strategies.>

n.  an ambiguous sound made by someone paralyzed with fear, as in the novel Theo Slugg in Low Spirits by Simon Goswell.


n.  the “crying of tiny engines” of ghost-like “tiny psycho cyclers” flying through the moonlight (Denis Johnson, Fiskadoro).


n.  the growl of a cat, “deeper than a purr” (Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Lived High).

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