hum
- Noun. A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed.
- Noun. An often indistinct sound resembling human humming.
- Noun. Busy activity, like a beehive's buzz.
- Noun. (UK, slang) unpleasant odour.
- Verb. (intransitive) To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed.
- Verb. (transitive) To express of affect by humming.
- Verb. (intransitive) To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly.
- Verb. (intransitive) To buzz, be busily active like a beehive.
- Verb. (intransitive) To produce a low sounds which blend continuously.
- Verb. (British) To reek, smell bad.
- Verb. (British) To deceive, or impose on one by some story or device.
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