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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
ahum en · ADJ · etymology 1
Etymology
From a- + hum.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) humming
Already the air was ahum with the flies around him.
1993, Gary Paul Nabhan, Counting Sheep: Twenty Ways of Seeing Desert Bighorn, page 102:
ahum en · INTJ · etymology 2
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of ahem (“coughing sound”).