thrrp.

n.  a noncommittal mutter, as in the story “Potch” by Leo Rosten (anthologized in A Passion for Books: A Book Lover’s Treasury of Stories, Essays, Humor, Love and Lists on Collecting, Reading, Borrowing, Lending, Caring for, and Appreciating Books by Harold Rabinowitz).


n.  the moment one catches a fish on a hook.

<In the meadow sometimes I would forget and let my shadow cross the quiet brook; and then I would approach from the east and drop my fly around the bend, and let it float gently, to tease the watching brown, until thrrp ... I had him.  What joy!  —Mary McClure Goulding, Changing Lives Through Redecision Therapy.>

ths.

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

tk-rrrrrrrrrrrrr.

n.  the “low-pitched guttural repercussion[s]” of the Rufous Nightjar, as described in Nightjars and Their Allies: The Caprimulgiformes by D.T. Holyoak.

tk-tk-tk-tk-tk-tk-tk.

n.  a repeated clicking sound.

<“Tk-tk-tk-tk-tk-tk-tk,” a rapid-fire clicking noise echoed from deep within Hunter’s throat, and leftover blood dripped from his beak as he slowly advanced upon the final victim of the hour.  —Black Dragon, “Guardian: A Ranma 1/2 Fanfiction.”>

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