nom
To eat with noisy enjoymentTo eat with noisy enjoyment.
» Mmm, this is one yummy pie! Om nom nom.
М-м-м, какой вкусный пирог! Ням-ням. — Ooneykcall
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1 senses(colloquial)To eat with noisy enjoyment.
Examples
2 sentencesMmm, this is one yummy pie! Om nom nom.
ruМ-м-м, какой вкусный пирог! Ням-ням. — Ooneykcall
Then they retype the entire volume by hand, since there is no character recognition software for Nom letters.
Origin
Onomatopoeic, variant of num, num-num. Attested 2004 as om nom, om nom nom, popularized frOnomatopoeic, variant of num, num-num. Attested 2004 as om nom, om nom nom, popularized from 2007 in internet use, second place in the American Dialect Society’s "Word of the Year" 2010. From the catchphrase of Cookie Monster on Sesame Street, as at the end of “C Is For Cookie” (1971), made when devouring cookies. However, as late as 2009, this was canonically written with a ‘u’, as in S is for School! (2006), as “num num”, or in the press kit for the 40th season (2009), as “un num num num num”; by 2013 this was changed to the now-popular nom.
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Forms
noms, nomming, nommed, nommedWord family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle