Hummed vs Cummed - What's the difference?
hummed | cummed |
(hum)
A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed.
An often indistinct sound resembling human humming.
* Shakespeare
Busy activity, like the buzz of a beehive.
(UK, slang) unpleasant odour.
(dated) An imposition or hoax; humbug.
(obsolete) A kind of strong drink.
To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed.
To express by humming.
To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2
To buzz, be busily active like a beehive
To produce low sounds which blend continuously
(British) To reek, smell bad.
(British) To deceive, or impose on one by some story or device.
(transitive, dated, slang) To flatter by approving; to cajole; to impose on; to humbug.
hmm; an inarticulate sound uttered in a pause of speech implying doubt and deliberation.
(nonstandard) (In the sense of having an orgasm) (cum)
* , Collected Letters: 1926-1950 , University of California/Viking (1985), page 31,
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(label) Semen.
(label) An ejaculation.
(label) Female ejaculatory discharge.
(label) To have an orgasm, to feel the sensation of an orgasm.
(label) To ejaculate.
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As verbs the difference between hummed and cummed
is that hummed is past tense of hum while cummed is (In the sense of having an orgasm) Past tense of cum.hummed
English
Verb
(head)hum
English
(wikipedia hum)Noun
(en noun)- They could hear a hum coming from the kitchen, and found the dishwasher on.
- the shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
Verb
(humm)- We are humming happily along with the music.
- to hum a tune
- ''The hazers ominously hummed "We shall overcome" while they paddled the unruly pledges
- A slight gloom fell upon the table. Jacob was helping himself to jam; the postman was talking to Rebecca in the kitchen; there was a bee humming at the yellow flower which nodded at the open window.
- 'The streets were humming with activity.''
- This room really hums — have you ever tried spring cleaning, mate?
Derived terms
* hummer * hummingbird * humming-topSynonyms
* bumble * bustle * hustle * buzz * croon * whirAnagrams
*Interjection
(en interjection)- (Alexander Pope)
cummed
English
Verb
(head)cum
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Preposition
(English prepositions)- He built a bus-cum -greenhouse that made a bold statement, but the plants in it didn't live very long.
- He is too good an actor to need that sort of tomfoolery: the effect will be far better if he is a credible mining camp elder-cum -publican.
Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)- But instead of being a salesperson cum''' barista '''cum waitress merely serving the wordsmiths, I'm one of them, reading her latest baby out loud.