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Word entry · 7 letters

humming

Best crossword clue

"Soft closed-mouth singing"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈhʌmɪŋ/Part of speech nounSorted ghimmnuStarts with HEnds with G1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the act of singing with closed lips

Word origin

From hum + -ing.

Used in a sentence

  • “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.”
  • “There are some contemporary additions to these scattered fragments from Shakespeare. Mostly they are songs; sometimes they are various screechings and hummings[…]”

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01“Soft closed-mouth singing”7 letters

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