mhmmm.

adv.  yes, as in Welcome to My Planet: Where English is Sometimes Spoken by Shannon Olson.

<“Is that you, Barbara?” Daddy calls from the living room.  “Mhmmm.”  —Glen Huser, Touch of the Clown.>

n.  an incoherent expression.

<“Mhmmm.”  Seth tried to reply, but his mouth felt as if it were full of cattail fluff.  —Mary Casanova, Moose Tracks.>

mhmmnn.

n.  a yawning agreement, as in the novel The Brothers K by David James Duncan.

mhrn.

n.  a feline murmur produced with a closed mouth.

<Cats make their mhrn’s serve many purposes.  They can greet a friend, call a kitten either coaxingly or commandingly, ask a favor, and (by changing the final n to an ng and letting the intonation drop) say “thank you.”  —Muriel Beadle, The Cat.>

mhrng.

n.  a feline murmur of thanks; see mhrn.

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