mnh

Interjection

1. Expressing satisfaction.
   • [A] man such as he was, old enough to know better, maybe, and yet still plenty young, head entirely emptied out and filled entirely up again with happiness and closeness and generosity and welcome, Kate Helen there with him at the end of the one true known way of his life. He thought, “Oh my! Old...1948, Wendell Berry, “The Dark Country”, in A Place in Time: Twenty Stories of the Port William Membership, Berkeley, Calif.: Counterpoint, published 2012, →ISBN, page 128
   • He had thought his imitation of good appetite was successful. “Don’t worry,” he said, spearing some more. / There wasn’t much to finish. She looked at him tenderly when he glanced down to see, and said nothing more about it. / “Mnh,” he said, leaning back.1957, James Agee, chapter 2, in A Death in the Family, New York, N.Y.: McDowell, Obolensky, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 34
2. Showing thought, reflection, or confusion.
   • ‘So long as I’m happy’, mnh?—what all the parents deprived of grandchildren swallow bravely and say.1994, Nadine Gordimer, chapter 11, in None to Accompany Me, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 159
   • Mnh, what that devil do, made you do it?1996, Diane McKinney-Whetstone, chapter 31, in Tumbling, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, page 260
3. Representing a sound produced with a closed mouth.
   • And the first man struck his pickaxe down hard into the ground, and it made the ground grunt, Mnh! And the second man did the same, and the ground gave another grunt, Mnh!1914, William John Hopkins, “The Digging-Men Story”, in The Doers, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC, page 5
   • Only the slight furrow between his eyebrows suggested the agony of indecision he was in; only the faint ‘Mnh-mnh’ coming again from his throat as he cleared it.2009, Vanora Bennett, “Part Nine: The Treasure of the City of Ladies”, in Blood Royal, London: HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN, section 3, page 575

Adjective capitalized: MNH

MNH (not comparable)

1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of mint, never hinged.
   • Loose mixed lot, with duplication, of the Portugal & Colonies first decimal definitive designs. Very mixed condition, from VF to junk, all "mint" in some form or another, some MNH, some MH, some MHH, some MNG, etc.1995 February 12, R L Silverman, “For Sale: Portugal/Colonies "Ceres" 1912-1931”, in rec.collecting.stamps (Usenet)
   • All concentrate on pre-1930 items, and contain many better stamps not found in typical collections. The Netherlands starts with the first issues (imperf and perf, with shade varieties) and contains better later items, some MNH.2006 October 23, Eric Hochman, “FA: Classic Collections -- Netherlands & Colonies, Cuba, and Haiti”, in rec.collecting.stamps.marketplace (Usenet)