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mmmmmm nnnn.
adv.  no, as in the story “Creature” by Carol Emshwiller (Nebula Awards Showcase 2004); see also mmnnnn.


mmmmmmgh.
n.  an indecipherable mumbling.

<[A] move which the National Head Trauma Board is calling “grmmph Arrrrgh mmmmmmgh.”  —“Production Music and Sound Design,” VideoHelper.com.>

mmmmmmm.
n.  a distracting hum made by an irreverent child during a dinner table prayer, as in God’s Whisper in a Mother’s Chaos: Bringing Peace Home by Keri Wyatt Kent.


mmmmmmmmmmmmm.
n.  a dreamy hum, as when someone reminisces about an old lover in The Autobiography of Vivian by Sherrie Krantz.


Mmmmmmmmmmmmm.
n.  the murmuring of a crowd.

<A low concerted sound rose from the congregation: “Mmmmmmmmmmmmm!”  —William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury.>

mmmmmmmmmmmmm.
n.  the title of a visual poem by Mike Cannell.



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