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Word: hum (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed.
  • An often indistinct sound resembling human humming.
  • Busy activity, like a beehive's buzz

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Verb:

  • British To deceive, or impose on one by some story or device.
  • British To reek, smell bad.
  • intransitive To buzz, be busily active like a beehive
  • intransitive To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly
  • intransitive To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed.
  • intransitive To produce a low sounds blend continuously
  • transitive To express of affect by humming

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