Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An obsolete spelling of dumb.
  • A simplified spelling of dumb.

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  • interjection Syllable used when humming a tune.

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Examples

  • Right here it goes '_Tum_ dee-dee _dum_ dee-dee _tum dum dum_.

    Cheerful—By Request Edna Ferber 1926

  • Pelle's head, and round about it went, striking the most improbable objects, _dum, dum, dum_, as though in wild, demoniacal obedience to the flute-like tones of the journeyman.

    Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

  • Pelle's head, and round about it went, striking the most improbable objects, _dum, dum, dum_, as though in wild, demoniacal obedience to the flute-like tones of the journeyman.

    Pelle the Conqueror — Complete Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

  • When Aeneas first sees Dido in all her stately beauty, he says: [440] in freta dum fluvii current, _dum montibus umbrae lustrabunt convexa_, polus dum sidera pascet, semper honos nomenque tuum laudesque manebunt, quae me cunque vocant terrae.

    The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

  • And what if you're embarrassed, or maybe * dum dum dum* you even like it, a little or a lot, and so, drunk off your head and tripping balls, you say -

    Natalia Antonova 2009

  • Sara pallin screamed in her first speach America needs more energy, stupid numnuts, you need to consume less in order to become free from the saudies…drilling a joke there is no oil field that can support a consumer the size of the USA in this hemisphere, believe me they would have found it in the past 40 years…It just mind boggles and frustrates me how dumb people can be running behind this party, how many more hurricanes do you need to understand global warming is real for example…you will have an amount of storms in years to come that go beyond any record, stronger then your saphire simpson scale goes and you still dont see the need to reduce emissions..dum dum …dum

    Sarah Palin’s Alaskonomics 2008

  • Ne - qne mo6 nihil tefiamento reiiquit, fed 3e vo« luit Naficam itfcire nihil fibi lega um; atque ex ejus dolore ac meftitia gaudium fi6i aftVi« tim rifumque dedit So/dum») Seu dotem filis, feo debitam du - dum fummam pecunise iutegram.

    Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera Horace, Ludovicus Desprez, André Dacier 1793

  • Socilized medicine (HEALTH CARE) wow again dum dum dum medicaid is a GOVERNMENT run program.

    Freshman Dem: Passing health care reform worth losing my seat 2009

  • I really do not get why some people who do not watch lost hate it so much, most of them have not watched more tha 3 or 4 episodes in no particular order and then proceed to call it dum because they do not know what is going on.

    LOST, The Best SF Show on TV 2008

  • The Great Gazoo was always trying to help the humans, he called dum-dums, although he always seemed to cause more problems for them.

    The Church of the Great Gazoo Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2008

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