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mlem

/mlɛm/

mlem noun: the act or sound of extending the tongue to lick something, especially one's own nose, without opening the mouth fully.

Noun (1)

mlem (plural mlems)

  1. (Internet) The act or sound of extending the tongue to lick something, especially one's own nose, without opening the mouth fully.
    • When they stick out their tongues, they're doing a mlem, a blep, a blop. They bork. They boof.2017 December 11, Jessica Boddy (for NPR), "Dogs are Doggos", in What Do You Meme, page 21
    • Not to be confused with a blep, a mlem is more dynamic and can occur multiple times over the standard duration of a blep. “Mlem, mlem, mlem.” “To obtain the peanut butter on his snoot, my dog did several mlems in a row.”2017, Matt Nelson, #WeRateDogs: The Most Hilarious and Adorable Pups You've Ever Seen, Skyhorse, →ISBN

Noun (2) capitalized: MLEM

MLEM (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of maximum likelihood expected-maximization (algorithm).
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:MLEM.

Examples of mlem in a sentence

  • Anyway, despite an extent less than a German shepherd’s mlem, the language of cute social media dog sites is known as DoggoLingo.2019 June 22, Dot Wordsworth, “The barking world of ‘doggo lingo’”, in The Spectator:
  • Love running on the beach and in the woods and kayak adventures, snuggles and sleeping, mlem.2019 September 30, Maine Cannabis Chronicle, volume I, issue III, page 44

Forms of mlem

pluralmlems

Origin of mlem

Onomatopoeia.

Questions about mlem

What does mlem mean?
Mlem means the act or sound of extending the tongue to lick something, especially one's own nose, without opening the mouth fully.
How do you use mlem in a sentence?
Anyway, despite an extent less than a German shepherd’s mlem, the language of cute social media dog sites is known as DoggoLingo.
What part of speech is mlem?
Mlem is a noun.
How do you pronounce mlem?
Mlem is pronounced /mlɛm/.
What is the plural of mlem?
The plural of mlem is mlems.

Words near mlem in the dictionary

  1. mlechchhas
  2. mleches
  3. mlechha
  4. mlechhas
  5. mlechs
  6. mlem
  7. mlems
  8. MLG
  9. MLH
  10. MLI
  11. mlinci

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mlem (page history and authors); MLEM (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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