humming

American  

[huhm-ing] / ˈhʌm ɪŋ /

adjective

1. making a droning sound; buzzing.

2. very busy; briskly active.

   a humming office.

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Other Word Forms

• hummingly adverb

Etymology

Origin of humming

First recorded in 1570–80; hum + -ing ²

Example Sentences

I made up for it with mine and went humming my way though the summer and fall.

From Literature

It sounded like a distant humming at first, then it became a droning, like a swarm of bees, a swarm that was coming closer, ever closer.

From Literature

It smelt of hunter and prey and Fast Wet and tree, all chewed up together, and from it came a high, thin humming: so high that Wolf could only just catch it.

From Literature

He was right, of course he was, so I kept dancing as long as he kept humming.

From Literature

Thousands of hedgehogs are taken into rescue centres in the UK every year where they could be exposed to stressful sounds such as machinery humming that humans cannot hear.

From BBC