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- ngh hng hng hng hng hnng.
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n. a piercing laugh.
| <The preferred women’s laugh: an upper-palate, saliva-powered “Ngh! hng! hng! hng! hng! hnng!” that was capable of shattering glass. —Jonathan Raban, Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings.> |
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n. a noncommittal response, as by a teenager being cross-examined by his parent about “listen[ing] to that moronic garbage” (music) in Too Soon to Tell by Calvin Trillin.
- ngk.
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n. an ironic grunt in the novel Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.
- ngn.
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n. a declaration of the divine “mercy and vengeance everlasting,” as taught by Rev. Ivan Stang in The Book of the SubGenius: Being the Divine Wisdom, Guidance, and Prophecy of J. R. ‘Bob’ Dobbs, High Epopt of the Church of the SubGenius, Here Inscribed for the Salvation of Future Generations and in the Hope that Slack May Someday Reign on this Earth.
- ngngngng.
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n. a “continuous melodic sound,” the exploration of which provides “valuable pre-reading experiences” (Anne Bloomfield, Teaching Integrated Arts in the Primary School: Dance, Drama, Music and the Visual Arts
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