What's the name of the sound a child makes after an angry, declarative and usually defiant statement. Parent: John, you can't take a cookie out of the cookie jar. Child: Yes, I can! HMPH!

Nov 8, 2011 · Is there a term for a person's audible reaction, the quoted written form of which we typically find spelled as heh or hmph?

Aug 10, 2015 · Exactly this. "mphm" is this author's way to write "hmph" without implying any annoyance. Other ways to write the same general "noncommittal grunt" are "mmm" (but that can …

Jul 24, 2020 · What's that sound called which we make when we are irritated or disgusted, when we press both our lips together and make a sucking sound, with our teeth closed. It's similar to a kissing …

Feb 8, 2015 · To clarify, the sound made by breathing out through the nose while obstructing that sound in kind of a rough nasal aspiration is commonly what we mean when we say snort.

Jun 24, 2018 · For the record, you can no more have differences "among" words than the eye of a daisy can ever be "among" its petals. These always have to be "between", just like choosing between …

Jun 15, 2016 · american-english These company names are collective nouns. In general, in American English collective nouns almost always trigger singular verb agreement (after all, "Microsoft" is …

Nov 12, 2012 · The commonly used expression, in AmE, is thanks a million. I think thanks a ton has derived from the same expression and eventually found its way to the mainstream. I can't find …

Mar 17, 2021 · Chinese Whispers, in British English, would be broadly recognised as a game that children play where the starting person whispers a word or phrase to another person. This is in turn …

May 7, 2023 · In software engineering, I sometimes see "first cut" in a context where it could mean "first version". Is it some idiom? Where does it come from? Does it mean literally …