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harrumph

[ huh-ruhmf ]

verb (used without object)

  1. to clear the throat audibly in a self-important manner:

    The professor harrumphed good-naturedly.

  2. to express oneself gruffly.


harrumph

/ ³óəˈ°ùÊŒ³¾´Ú /

verb

  1. intr to clear or make the noise of clearing the throat
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of harrumph1

First recorded in 1935–40; imitative
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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.

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"Trousers," exclaims the Prince Andrew character, with a fruity harrumph, as though taken aback by a female interviewer wearing trousers.

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I humored her harrumphs when my best friend and I waited in line for hours to see the second batch in the late 1990s.

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They treated an audience that knows how to harrumph to a smorgasbord of how things should be done.

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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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