Entry: fricatives (n.)
In context: "He can make out just the whistly fricatives of Charles Tavis's distant voice behind his double office doors..."
Definition: Of a consonant-sound: Produced by the friction of the breath through a narrow opening between two of the mouth-organs
Other:
SNOOT score: 1
Page: 514
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
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