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Clitter

'Tarka gave chase to a rabbit during the next night, bolting it from a hillside clitter of rocks in a...

Chitter

'Hearing them, an ackymal that had been searching the streamside hawthorn boughs for green caterpillars flittered to the islet and...

triologisms

Mastiff-like tenacity

Such jaw-gripping tenacity is used to describe the force that the ending '-cious' adds to words, as in the word...

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Bombinate

A beautiful bumble-bee buzzing about. The dictionary insists this is a literary term for to 'buzz or hum' but such...

triologisms

Raven-like croaks

Williamson's lovingly accurate study of otters includes many examples of the playfulness of these animals, be it with each other,...

metaphors

Of merry audacious jays

Two fine metaphors here, describing the nature and the cry of jays, though the first of these is by now...

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Roucouler

The second syllable has the clue, here is how to bill and coo...

This soft word can mean to whisper...

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Yarr

'Deadlock yarred through his bare teeth.'

'Between his teeth the hound yarred...'

A word now apparently limited to dialect, but...

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Tiss

'When he noticed that it was looking at him. The look frightened him as he tissed at it.'

'He lay...

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Whippering

'... the whippering cries of golden plover.'

This seems to be a Williamson coinage to describe the cry of a...

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Stitter

'Robins ticked at him, wrens stittered.'

Perhaps another sound imitation coined by Williamson? His slim account of an otter's joyous...

metaphors

Sucking at stones

Swelter is one of the less attractive characters in Mervyn Peake's sprawling, crawling, mossy pile of forgotten granite, Gormenghast. He...

Clitter

Chitter

Mastiff-like tenacity

Bombinate

Raven-like croaks

Of merry audacious jays

Roucouler

Yarr

Tiss

Whippering

Stitter

Sucking at stones

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