thfyhtf.

n.  the title of a visual poem by Mike Cannell.

thgg.

n.  the sound of one hand grasping another, as in the graphic novel Uzumaki 3 by Junji Ito.

thgh.

conj.  though, written in Roger Bacon’s all-consonant secret code (devised in 1250), as discussed in The Voynich Manuscript by Gerry Kennedy.

thmp.

n.  a thumping or banging sound.

<‘Why---’ thmp / ‘are you being’ / thmp thmp bng-bmp / ‘so fucking nice to me?’ / he asked.  / thmp thmp.  —Terra Elan McVoy, “Dragonfly.”>

thnk.

n.  the clang of balls in a skee ball machine, as in the graphic novel Sordid City Blues by Charles Schneeflock Snow.

thnn.

n.  an incoherent word (presumably “thank”) spoken through a parched throat, just upon waking.

<He was startled, had let his head fall, sleepily, and he snapped awake, stood, saw the young man holding the door for him, and he tried to say something, his mouth dry and thick.  “Thnn uuu,” he said, and cleared his throat, stepped through the door.  —Jeffrey M. Shaara, Gods and Generals.>

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