Rrah vs Rah - What's the difference?
rrah | rah |
A cry uttered by an infant vervet when separated from its mother.
* 1983 , William C. Stebbins, The Acoustic Sense of Animals (page 140)
* 2011 , Jean Aitchison, The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics (page 25)
As nouns the difference between rrah and rah
is that rrah is a cry uttered by an infant vervet when separated from its mother while rah is a person (especially a student) with a posh accent who looks down on those who are 'common'.As an interjection rah is
an exclamation of encouragement.As an adjective rah is
posh.rrah
English
Noun
- Struhsaker has recorded at least five different distress calls by infant vervets related to mother-infant separation. As the distance between mother and infant increases the "rrah " call changes to "eee" or "rrr" with an increase in intensity.
- Even the impressive vervet monkey has only thirty-six distinct vocal sounds in its repertoire. An infant separated from its mother gives the lost rrah cry.
