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Humming

//ˈhʌmɪŋ// adj, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Making a hum sound.
  2. 2
    Of ale or beer: very strong. archaic

    "But at night crowds of visitors called at his cot, / For he told a right marvellous tale; / Yet a stronger attraction by chance he had got, / A barrel of old humming ale."

  3. 3
    Very bad-smelling. UK, slang
Noun
  1. 1
    The sound of something that hums; a hum.

    "There are some contemporary additions to these scattered fragments from Shakespeare. Mostly they are songs; sometimes they are various screechings and hummings[…]"

  2. 2
    the act of singing with closed lips wordnet
  3. 3
    a humming noise wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of hum form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From hum + -ing.

Etymology 2

From hum + -ing.

Etymology 3

From Middle English hummynge, equivalent to hum + -ing.

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