ahum

A1H4U1M3

adjective

humming

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Meanings

ahum1

adjectiveahum (not comparable)
  1. not comparablehumming

    Already the air was ahum with the flies around him.

    1993, Gary Paul Nabhan, Counting Sheep: Twenty Ways of Seeing Desert Bighorn, page 102

ahum2

interjection
  1. alternativeAlternative form of ahem (“coughing sound”).

Origin

From a- + hum.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

HumamahuMuha
Cite this entry
APA

ahum. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ahum

MLA

“ahum.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ahum. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ahum,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ahum.

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