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mmm

interjectioncommon in dialogue

  • /[m̩ː]/

An emotional expression of satisfaction.

interjection

  1. 1

    An emotional expression of satisfaction.

    Mmm, this is a tasty pie!

  2. 2

    An expression used to show thought, reflection, or confusion.

    Mmm, I see what you mean.

    In his final years he [John Ogdon] gave an interview to an American journalist who noticed that “his handshake is a boneless fadeaway. His response to a lengthy anecdote from a close friend is likely to range from a non-committal ‘Mmmmmmm’ to a rare ‘Very interesting’.”

  3. 3

    Used to represent an utterance that is muffled or spoken with a full mouth (also spelled "mmph").

  4. 4

    Yes.

    Danny: Have you got any food? I: Mmm! As a matter of fact, got a saveloy.

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).