ahum

ahum

English

Etymology 1

a- +‎ hum

Adjective

ahum (not comparable)

1. humming
   • 1993, Gary Paul Nabhan, Counting Sheep: Twenty Ways of Seeing Desert Bighorn (page 102)

     Already the air was ahum with the flies around him.

Interjection

ahum

1. Alternative form of ahem (“coughing sound”)