hlmpfmr.

n.  an incomprehensible utterance of pain, from the ubiquitous German joke about a man mistakenly diagnosed with hemorrhoids who tells the proctologist, “get someone with longer fingers—I have a sore throat!”  See also drmpf, hgmmm, hmmgmr.

hlp.

v.  “help,” as spoken in a faint, muffled voice in the novel Dezra’s Quest by Chris Pierson.

hm.

interj.  an expression of contemplation.

<“The whole universe is like some big FedEx box.”  “Hm.”  —Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore.>

n.  a reply meaning “what?” or “huh?” in the novel Perlman’s Ordeal by Brooks Hansen.

hm hm hm.

n.  a sound made when one’s mouth is full of food, as in the opera The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

hm hmhm hm.

n.  a mumbled acknowledgment, as in A: A Novel by Andy Warhol.

hmhm.

n.  a chuckle, as in the novel From Sea to Shining Sea by James Alexander Thom.

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