Mumble vs Hum - What's the difference?
mumble | hum |
(intransitive) To speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate.
* Shakespeare
* Otway
To chew something gently with closed lips.
A quiet or unintelligible vocalization.
A low tone of voice.
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.
As verbs the difference between mumble and hum
is that mumble is to speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate while hum is to make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed.As nouns the difference between mumble and hum
is that mumble is a quiet or unintelligible vocalization while hum is a hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed.As an interjection hum is
hmm; an inarticulate sound uttered in a pause of speech implying doubt and deliberation.mumble
English
Verb
- Please try not to mumble so I can hear you better.
- Peace, you mumbling fool.
- A wrinkled hag, with age grown double, / Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* mumblage * mumblecore * mumblenews * mumbler * mumblety pegNoun
(en noun)- All I could hear was a mumble from the next room.
- ''He spoke in a mumble .
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)