Yarr

'Deadlock yarred through his bare teeth.'

'Between his teeth the hound yarred...'

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

Stitter

'Robins ticked at him, wrens stittered.'

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

Sucking at stones

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

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