sh-sh-sh.

n.  the sound of maracas or other shakable percussion instruments, as described in Complete Idiot’s Guide to Playing Drums by Michael Miller; see also ch-ch-ch.

shf.

n.  a stifled sob, as at a funeral, in the graphic novel Uzumaki 2 by Junji Ito.


n.  the sound of a shirt being pulled up, as in the graphic novel Uzumaki 3 by Junji Ito.

shff.

(also shfff, sshfff, sshffff.)  n.  the sound of shoveling dirt, as in the graphic novel Uzumaki 2 by Junji Ito.


n.  a short spelling of sheriff.

<The final conclusion of the meeting was to let the Shff go on.  —Dorothy Kubik, A Free Soil—A Free People: The Anti-Rent War in Delaware County, New York.>

shfff.

n.  the sound of clothing pulled over one’s head, as in the graphic novel ShadowFall by Kaichi Satake.

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