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harrumph
[ huh-ruhmf ]
verb (used without object)
- to clear the throat audibly in a self-important manner:
The professor harrumphed good-naturedly.
- to express oneself gruffly.
harrumph
/ ³óəˈ°ùÊŒ³¾´Ú /
verb
- intr to clear or make the noise of clearing the throat
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of harrumph1
Example Sentences
Trump is far from the first US president to harrumph at Europe's reluctance to do more for, as well as spend more on, its own defence.
"Trousers," exclaims the Prince Andrew character, with a fruity harrumph, as though taken aback by a female interviewer wearing trousers.
I humored her harrumphs when my best friend and I waited in line for hours to see the second batch in the late 1990s.
They treated an audience that knows how to harrumph to a smorgasbord of how things should be done.
In one harrumph, Trump charged that no incumbent president since 1960 had failed to win the general election after winning Iowa, Florida and Ohio.
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