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hnh.
n.  a huff of disbelief, as in the graphic novella Hearts and Minds by Scott McCloud.


n.  an inquisitive sound; see also hrn.

<I twitched violently, and the woman next to me snorted, reared up with a bleary, “Hnh?” and collapsed again, in a whoosh.  —Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross.>

Hnj.
n.  a populated place in the Gracias a Dios region of Honduras.


hnn.
n.  a grunt of exertion, as while playing a video game in the comic strip “PvP” by Scott R. Kurtz; see also grnt.


Hnn.
n.  an emissary of the Goblin Elves.

<The emissary’s name was Hnn.  Among his own people, he was a hunt-leader, cruel and fearless, but now he had been brought before his gods, and he crouched and cowered, drooling in fear.  —Mercedes Lackey, To Light a Candle.>

hnnh.
interj.  in “Grunt, a dialect of English passed on from father to son ... ‘Hnnh!’ means ‘Wow, I didn’t know that.  Glad you told me’” (James Dale, Rules For Wives).



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