sssft.

n.  the angry snarl of a duck whose treasure and flying carpet have been stolen, as in Walt Disney’s Comics in Color, Volume 7 by Carl Barks.

ssshhhhh.

n.  an overwhelmed exhalation.

<Sullivan’s mouth opened, but all the things there were to say overwhelmed him, and he just exhaled a descending “Ssshhhhh.”  —Tim Powers, Expiration Date>

ssshhhhhhh.

n.  the sound of a garage lift.

<If he had been able to hear, he would have heard, in the nearly perfect silence, the sound of Tom Cullen’s imagination at work—the lip-vibrating brrrrrr as he drove the cars onto the Fisher-Price tarmac ... the ssshhhhhhh as the lift inside went up and down.  —Stephen King, The Stand: Expanded Edition.>

ssshp.

n.  the sound of paint rollers on a wall.

<I could hear their sticky little rollers moving over that wall, ssshp, ssshp, ssshp.  —Nicholson Baker, Vox.>

ssslllrr.

n.  the slurping sound of a whirlpool swallowing a raft, as in the graphic novel Uzumaki 3 by Junji Ito.

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