rmg.

n.  the sound of rummaging through a purse or bag, as in the graphic novel Uzumaki 3 by Junji Ito.

rmm rmm rmm rrrrrrmmmmm.

n.  a sound made by someone “pommelling on the sofa” (James Joyce, Ulysses).

Rmmm.

n.  a nickname in college for someone with a “tendency to mumble” (Roy Bount Jr., Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story).

rmmm.

n.  the rumble of a large van on the street, as in the novel The Knights of Silversnow by Tony Abbott.


n.  the sound of an electric food-mixer; see vzzzz.

rmmm-rmmm-rmmm.

n.  the “wide open” vibrating of an automobile engine, as described in Happy to Be Here by Garrison Keillor.

rmmmm rmmmm.

interj.  a sound used to fill a pause in speaking while one thinks, as in the novel A Rat’s Tale by Tor Seidler.

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