fricative
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Gibson pauses before the last word to let a slow fricative sound emanate from his lips — fff — like air escaping from a punctured tire, or a man suppressing a naughty word.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2016
That’s the voiceless velar fricative, and it adds a wonderful percussiveness to “99 Luftbalons.”
From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2012
Clinton made it through the speech, but just barely, his voice catching on every fricative by the end.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the South palatal c became a fricative ch.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
And he had the heavy fricative greeting sound.
From Missing Link by Frank Patrick Herbert
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