om nom nom

interjection

The sound made while relishing food.

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Meanings

interjection

alternative omnomnom · alternative om nom · alternative om nom nom nom · alternative nom nom · alternative nom nom nom

  1. childishslangThe sound made while relishing food.

    Synonyms: yum

nounom nom nom (countable and uncountable, plural om nom noms)

plural om nom noms · alternative omnomnom · alternative om nom · alternative om nom nom nom · alternative nom nom · alternative nom nom nom

  1. Internetcountableplural normallyuncountableTasty food.

    2012, Ava Anastasia, "There's nothing wrong with some OM NOM NOM", Scope (Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia), Issue 14, Week 7, Semester 121, page 11 (used in title only)

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    Activities include: / Music and Dancing / Speeches / An attempt to bring Tory and WBM to the East Coast / Balloons / Om nom noms / […]

    05/04/2008, SenatorXenu, “Anonymous to hold rally in US Capitol July 19th 2008.”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet)

    > "Guys, I want you to go out there tonight and not give the slightest > thought about defense. None. I want you to see if you can score six > goals, no matter how many the other guys get. You do that, and we all > have dinners at Minneapolis' best steak house on me." […] I like it. Motivate with some OM NOM NOM

    2009 March 9, Mr. T, “Re: Giving line-juggling another shot”, in alt.sports.hockey.nhl.sj-sharks (Usenet)

Synonyms & antonyms

interjectionThe sound made while relishing food.

Similar
yum
Also see
food

Origin

Onomatopoeic, attested in 2004, variant of num-num. Originally from the sound Cookie Monster on Sesame Street makes when he eats (from late 1960s and early 1970s), though this was canonically “un num num num num”, with a ‘u’. Popularized since 2007 in Internet use, particularly in meme-based images, especially lolcats and other image macros. See nom for details.

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Translations

Catalan nyam nyam, nyam
  • nyam nyamsound made while relishing food
  • nyamsound made while relishing food
Chinese Mandarin 啊嗚啊嗚 /啊呜啊呜, 昂姆昂姆
  • 啊嗚啊嗚 /啊呜啊呜 (āwūāwū)sound made while relishing food
  • 昂姆昂姆 (ángmǔángmǔ)sound made while relishing food
Danish nammenam
  • nammenamsound made while relishing food
Finnish nam-nam
  • nam-namsound made while relishing food
French miam miam miam
  • miam miam miamsound made while relishing food
German njam, njam, njam
  • njam, njam, njamsound made while relishing food
Hungarian nyam-nyam
  • nyam-nyamsound made while relishing food
Indonesian nyam
  • nyamsound made while relishing food
Italian gnam gnam
  • gnam gnamsound made while relishing food
Polish om
  • omsound made while relishing food
Portuguese nham nham
  • nham nhamsound made while relishing food
Russian ням-ня́м, ням
  • ням-ня́м (njam-njám)sound made while relishing food
  • ням (njam)sound made while relishing food
Spanish ñam ñam ñam
  • ñam ñam ñamsound made while relishing food
Swedish mums, nam nam
  • mumssound made while relishing food
  • nam namsound made while relishing food
Vietnamese nhồm nhoàm, măm
  • nhồm nhoàmsound made while relishing food
  • mămsound made while relishing food
Cite this entry
APA

om nom nom. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/om%20nom%20nom

MLA

“om nom nom.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/om%20nom%20nom. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “om nom nom,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/om%20nom%20nom.

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