hum

Meanings

Noun

• A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed.
• An often indistinct sound resembling human humming.
• Busy activity, like the buzz of a beehive.
• unpleasant odour.
• An imposition or hoax; humbug.
• A kind of strong drink.
• A phenomenon, or collection of phenomena, involving widespread reports of a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise not audible to all people.

Verb

• To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed.
• To express by humming.
• To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly
• To buzz, be busily active like a beehive
• To produce low sounds which blend continuously
• To reek, smell bad.
• To flatter by approving; to cajole; to deceive or impose upon; to humbug.

Interjection

• Synonym of hmm:
• Synonym of um:

Related

Similar words

• bumble
• bustle
• hustle
• buzz
• croon
• whir

Origin

• From Middle English hummen; akin to Dutch hommelen, dialectal Dutch hommen, Middle High German hummen, probably ultimately of imitative origin.