hum

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed.
2. An often indistinct sound resembling human humming.
3. Busy activity, like the buzz of a beehive.
4. (slang) Unpleasant odour.
5. An imposition or hoax; humbug.
6. (obsolete) A kind of strong drink.
7. 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

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

Intj

1. Synonym of hmm: a noise indicating thought, consideration, &c.
2. Synonym of um: a noise indicating doubt, uncertainty, &c.

Conceptos

zumbar

canturrear

murmullo

zumbido

ronronear

algarabía

susurro

tararear

murmurar

bullicio

bordonear

rumor

rumorear

susurrar

que zumba

zumba

roncar

abejorreo

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈhʌm/

Etimología (Inglés)

From Middle English hummen (“to hum, buzz, drone, make a murmuring sound to cover embarrassment”); akin to Dutch hommelen (“to bumble, buzz”), dialectal Dutch hommen (“to buzz, hum”), Middle High German hummen (“to hum”), probably ultimately of imitative origin.