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  • "hummy" with the comment, "And it is that word 'hummy,' my darlings, that marks the first place ... at which Tonstant Weeder Fwowed up."

    NYT > Home Page By Jennifer Finney Boylan 2010

  • She particularly disliked “hummy,” writing, “And it is that word ‘hummy,’ my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader Fwowed up.”

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2008 » January 2008

  • Okeh, we gets hyoomin to put blankee or pillo on top of hummy-cheezburgur mashine and watsch teh TV on teh cownter in here.

    Perfect Place on Earth - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • She particularly disliked “hummy,” writing, “And it is that word ‘hummy,’ my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader Fwowed up.”

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » The Top Ten Literary Anecdotes 2008

  • She particularly disliked “hummy,” writing, “And it is that word ‘hummy,’ my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader Fwowed up.”

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2008 » January 2008

  • As Tonstant Weader knows, Eli has found the Good Diplom Beck a bit too hummy.

    Archive 2008-03-01 EliRabett 2008

  • She particularly disliked “hummy,” writing, “And it is that word ‘hummy,’ my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader Fwowed up.”

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2008 » January » 06 2008

  • The meal was downright dull… not BAD, but ho-hummy after lots of work.

    the duds of summer | smitten kitchen 2008

  • She had begun a hummy little tune to help out, but in the interstices of rattling peas and the verses of the tune she could distinctly hear some of the things Aunt Olivia and the Caller were saying.

    Rebecca Mary Annie Hamilton Donnell

  • It's all a touch too Winnie the Pooh for me: "If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddley poms."

    unknown title 2009

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  • " 'Tiddely what?' said Piglet." (He took, as you might say, the very words out of your correspondent's mouth.)

    " 'Pom', said Pooh. 'I put that in to make it more hummy.' "

    And it is that word "hummy," my darlings, that marks the first place in The House at Pooh Corner at which Tonstant Weader Fwowed up.

    —Constant Reader (Dorothy Parker), as I'm sure you know.

    August 11, 2008