oooo.

n.  the scarcely audible call of the Chatham Island Pigeon, as described in The Complete Guide to Antarctic Wildlife: Birds and Marine Mammals of the Antarctic Continent and the Southern Ocean by Hadoram Shirlhai.


n.  the scream of the Swamp Gaboon, as in The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews Edwards.

oooo eee.

n.  the haunting call of the snowy owl.

<Over and over / at dinner she calls, oooo ... eee.  —Frances Mayes, “Sestina For the Owl,” The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems.>

oooo eeeee.

n.  the wailing winds of a typhoon.

<He stood in the pilothouse, safe from the flying spray, his elbow hooked around the captain’s chair, and grinned into the teeth of the typhoon, which wailed louder than ever, “OOOO! EEEEE!”  —Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny: A Novel.>

oooo ooee eeee.

n.  an expression of dread upon finding oneself stranded in a strange place at night, as in the song “Cross Road Blues” by Robert Johnson, as transcribed in Trouble in Mind by Leon F. Litwack.

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