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humming en · ADJ · etymology 1
Pronunciation
Etymology
From hum + -ing.
Meanings
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Making a hum sound.
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(archaic) Of ale or beer: very strong.
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.
1889, John Bickerdyke, The Curiosities of Ale & Beer: An Entertaining History, page 13:
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(UK, slang) Very bad-smelling.
Forms
Deriveds
humming October · humming stone · humming top · humming-top
humming en · VERB · etymology 1
Pronunciation
Etymology
From hum + -ing.
Meanings
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of hum
humming en · NOUN · etymology 2
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Middle English hummynge, equivalent to hum + -ing.
Meanings
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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[…]
1969 December 8, New York Magazine, volume 2, number 49, page 70:
Forms
Antonyms
snapping
Deriveds
hummingbird
Hypernyms
sound
Hyponyms
purr · purring · girn · crooning
Synonyms
whizzing · droning · buzzing · thrum · drone · whizz · thrumming · whirr · hum · whirring · humming · buzz · bombination