<Mmm mmm mmm, scientists caught using human corpses as crash-test dummies. —Fark.com.>
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm.
n. the title of a song by the band The Crash Test Dummies.
mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm.
interj. a teasing sound.
<“Mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm,” Tarshia teased when they were inside. “You see the way that guy was looking at you?” —Wally Lamb, Couldn’t Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters.>
mmm-hm.
n. a sound meaning “I understand,” as in The Wounded Healer by Henri Nouwen and The Silicon Man by Charles Platt.
mmm-hmm.
n. an enthusiastically affirmative answer.
<Mmm-hmmm! I love a man in drag! —Clumsygrrrl.>
mmm-hmph.
n. an acknowledgment, as in the novel Duke of Sin by Adele Ashworth.
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