AAAAA.

interj.  the desolate cry of uniform buildings which are constructed side by side in a monotonous fashion, out of harmony with their surroundings.

<If buildings are the letters of the alphabet they are not used to make coherent words but to utter the desolate cries of AAAAA!  Or OOOOOO!  —Gordon Cullen, qtd. in Architectures: Modernish and After by Andrew Ballantyne.>

aaaaa.

n.  a sound of pain, as in the comic book “DV8 #4” by Humberto Ramos and Sal Regla, and as in the graphic novel Uzumaki 2 by Junji Ito.


n.  the sound of a baby crying, as described in the novel Edwin Mullhouse by Steven Millhauser.

aaaaaaa.

n.  a mocking imitation, likening someone’s speech to the buzz of an annoying insect.

<He makes the noises “Rrrrrrr” and “Aaaaaaa” to imitate Glennon, as if he’d heard his words as nothing more than the buzzing of an overwrought insect inviting a swatting.  —Philip Gourevitch, A Cold Case.>

aaaaaaaoooooooo.

n.  the “long-drawn-out howl” of someone both drunk and homesick, as in Psalm at Journey’s End: A Novel by Erik Fosnes Hansen; see also aooooooo.

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