mmmmm.

n.  a passionate murmur, as if one is “having a seizure” during kissing in The Year of Ice: A Novel by Brian Malloy; see also hmmmph.


n.  a sound which a “great conversationalist” makes while listening to keep people talking, as discussed in Think Like Your Customer: A Winning Strategy to Maximize Sales by Understanding and Influencing How and Why Your Customers Buy by Bill Stinnett; see also hmmmm, hmm.


n.  an emotional sigh, as discussed in Improv for Storytellers by Keith Johnstone.


n.  an expression of feeling vulnerable upon finding oneself stranded in a strange place at night, as in the song “Cross Road Blues” by Robert Johnson, as transcribed in Trouble in Mind by Leon F. Litwack.

mmmmm-hnnn.

n.  an affirmative answer.

<“Mom, you in there?  You okay?”  “Mmmmm-hnnn.”  —Bett Williams, Girl Walking Backwards.>

mmmmmm.

interj.  an expression that something is pleasing to the senses.

<“Mmmmmm,” I said, my mouth filled with her left breast.  —Luke Rhinehart, The Dice Man.>

mmmmmm nnnn.

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

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