mmmm.

n.  a purring affirmation.

<“Mmmm,” purrs the male of the species.  —William Gibson, Pattern Recognition.> <“Did you have enough chili, M?”  “Mmmm.”  —Steven Sherrill, The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break: A Novel.>

n.  a sound recommended to aid meditation, as discussed in Lymphedema: A Breast Cancer Patient’s Guide to Prevention and Healing by Jeannie Burt; see also nnnn.


n.  the sound of a trolley, as described in “More Than Words” by the New Zealand Ministry of Education.


n.  the sound of the letter m; see also mmm.

<How about a hint to help you find mmmm?  —Peggy Kaye, Games for Learning: Ten Minutes a Day to Help Your Child Do Well in School, From Kindergarten to Third Grade.> <To teach the letter m and it’s sound, “mmmm,” children are asked to describe their favorite meal and then rub their tummies as they say m, m, m, m, m, meal.  —Sally Shaywitz, Overcoming Dyslexia: A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Reading Problems at Any Level.>

mmmm mhmm.

n.  “quiet assent,” as discussed in Teaching Students to Write by Beth Neman.

mmmm mmm mmmmm.

(also mmmm, mmmmm, mmmm mmm, mmmmm mmmm mm mmmmmmmm.)  n.  the quiet humming of a gagged computer terminal, as in Life, The Universe, And Everything by Douglas Adams.

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