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om nom nom

om nom nom interjection: the sound made while relishing food.

Interjection

  1. (childish, slang) The sound made while relishing food.
    Synonyms:
    yum

Noun

om nom nom (countable and uncountable, plural om nom noms)

  1. (Internet, plural-normally) Tasty food.
    • Activities include: / Music and Dancing / Speeches / An attempt to bring Tory and WBM to the East Coast / Balloons / Om nom noms / […]05/04/2008, SenatorXenu, “Anonymous to hold rally in US Capitol July 19th 2008.”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet)
    • > "Guys, I want you to go out there tonight and not give the slightest
      > thought about defense. None. I want you to see if you can score six
      > goals, no matter how many the other guys get. You do that, and we all
      > have dinners at Minneapolis' best steak house on me." […]
      I like it. Motivate with...2009 March 9, Mr. T, “Re: Giving line-juggling another shot”, in alt.sports.hockey.nhl.sj-sharks (Usenet)

om nom nom meaning in Indonesian and Vietnamese

om nom nom in Indonesian

sound made while relishing food
nyam

om nom nom in Vietnamese

sound made while relishing food
nhồm nhoàm, măm

Synonyms of om nom nom

Forms of om nom nom

Interjection
alternative formomnomnom
alternative formom nom
alternative formom nom nom nom
alternative formnom nom
alternative formnom nom nom
Noun
pluralom nom noms

Origin of om nom nom

Onomatopoeic, attested in 2004, variant of num-num. Originally from the sound Cookie Monster on Sesame Street makes when he eats (from late 1960s and early 1970s), though this was canonically “un num num num num”, with a ‘u’. Popularized since 2007 in Internet use, particularly in meme-based images, especially lolcats and other image macros. See nom for details.

Questions about om nom nom

What does om nom nom mean?
Om nom nom means the sound made while relishing food.
What is om nom nom in Indonesian?
Om nom nom in Indonesian is nyam. See Om nom nom meaning in Indonesian.
What part of speech is om nom nom?
Om nom nom can be an interjection or a noun.

Words near om nom nom in the dictionary

  1. Om Alis
  2. om mani padme hum
  3. om mani padme hun
  4. Om Namah Shivaya
  5. om nom
  6. om nom nom
  7. om nom nom nom
  8. om nom noms
  9. Om'
  10. om-
  11. oma

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