adj. successful, written in Roger Bacon’s all-consonant secret code (devised in 1250), as discussed in The Voynich Manuscript by Gerry Kennedy.
schrrr frrr chrrr.
n. a French phrase for a repetitive sound on a telephone answering machine resembling laundry flapping on a clothesline, a needle stuck at the end of a 45 record, or the sound of a spinning washing machine, but actually the sound of street traffic and wind carried over the open line of an inadvertent cell phone call, as in “Numéro privé” by Erwan Le Goffic.
scl.
n. the title of a visual poem by Mike Cannell.
scr.
n. the scurrying of mice in the ceiling, as in the graphic novel Uzumaki 3 by Junji Ito.
scrnch.
n. the chewing sound of a “white, orange-spotted wildcat” ravenously scarfing down a pawful of cookies (Voy.com).
