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mrnng.
n.  morning, as muttered by someone with a toothbrush in his mouth; see also g’mrnng.

<“Good morning,” Peppy said over his shoulder, making coffee as Bill wandered into the kitchen.  “Mrnng,” Bill agreed around the toothbrush, scrubbing absent-mindedly.  —Anonymous, “Infinity’s Descent.”>

Mrnng.
n.  the title of a song by the jazz band MSK on the album Minimal.


mrr.
n.  a cat’s purr.

<Then the door to the bathroom swung open then, just a few inches, enough for the little brown cat to put her head around the door frame and ‘Mrr?’ up at him curiously.  —Neil Gaiman, American Gods.>

n.  a grunt in the Wookie language of the Star Wars films, as transcribed in the comic strip “PvP” by Scott R. Kurtz; see also grnnnk, hrrrrr.


mrrg.
n.  a groggy mumbling.

<Shoving aside unfamiliar materials, she opened her eyes and was greeted by the wet, pink snout of an albino rat.  ‘Mrrg.  Hey there, Loki.’ —Whitney Lakin, A Paintbrush in the Devil’s Toolbox.>


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