An often indistinct sound resembling human humming.
Unpleasant odour.
A phenomenon, or collection of phenomena, involving widespread reports of a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise not audible to all people.
Busy activity, like the buzz of a beehive.
A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed.
Synonym of um: a noise indicating doubt, uncertainty, &c.
Synonym of hmm: a noise indicating thought, consideration, &c.
To produce low sounds which blend continuously
To express by humming.
To reek, smell bad.
To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed.
To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly
To buzz, be busily active like a beehive
A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration.
Small pieces of rope yarn used for making mats or mops.
Any short piece of leftover thread or yarn; a tuft or tassel.
A fringe made of such threads.
The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut.
A spicy taste; a tang.
A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
A tuft, bundle, or fringe of any threadlike structures, as hairs on a leaf, fibers of a root.
A bundle of minute blood vessels, a plexus.
A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
Made of or woven from thrum.
To cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking.
To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in.
To make a monotonous drumming noise.
To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.