rrrrr.

interj.  an impatient grumble, as in the novel The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares.


n.  a catlike growl.

<‘Rrrrr,’ said Emerson.  It sounded like the amplified purr of a large cat but was, in fact, a growl.  —Elizabeth Peters, Guardian of the Horizon.>

n.  a dog’s growl, as when suspicious of a stranger.

<“Rrrrr ...” she growled, but recalled yesterday’s dinner, wagged her tail, and began sniffing.  —Anton Chekhov, “Kashtanka,” The Essential Tales of Chekhov.>

n.  a growl of someone “a little peeved,” as discussed in What Predicts Divorce?: The Relationship Between Marital Processes and Marital Outcomes by John Mordechai Gottman.


n.  a grumble of someone being shaken awake, as in the novel Dream Country by Luanne Rice; a grumpy sound accompanied by a “gimlet-eyed glare” of someone still too sleepy to begin her day, as in the novel Keep on the Borderlands by Ru Emerson.

RRRRR.

n.  a lawnmower.

<Outside she pushes the RRRRR-Thing over the grass fiercely and it eats the grass for her.  —Patricia Finney, I, Jack.>

rrrrr.

n.  a lion’s friendly purr, as in That’s Good! That’s Bad! by Margery Cuyler.

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