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Definition: Ho-hum |
Ho-humAdjective1. So lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Ho-humSynonyms: boring (adj), deadening (adj), dull (adj), irksome (adj), slow (adj), tedious (adj), tiresome (adj), wearisome (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ho-hum |
| English words defined with "ho-hum": boring ♦ deadening, dull ♦ irksome ♦ slow ♦ tedious, tiresome ♦ wearisome. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Westward Ho-Hum (1941) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Martyrs to duty. Ho-hum! Another day! Now I must wake all these suburbanites! They'd sleep ...Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-h-m-o-u" | |
-2 letters: huh, hum, mho, ohm. | |
-3 letters: hm, ho, mo, mu, oh, om, uh, um. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-h-m-o-u" | |
+3 letters: muchacho. | |
+4 letters: methought, mouthwash, muchachos, thumbhole. | |
+5 letters: hoodlumish, misthought, thumbholes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 6F 2D 68 75 6D |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101111 00101101 01101000 01110101 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H o - h u m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 006F 002D 0068 0075 006D |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)428115748779 |
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