ho-hum
/həʊˈhʌm
/exclamation
Used to express boredom or resignation.Now I don't need those sights in my head as I prepare to return to work… ho-hum....
- But ho-hum, they can't include everything, and it didn't really bother me.
- If your ho-ho has become ho-hum, try something new this year - with a little imagination, you can always reinvent a reason for the season.
adjective
Boring: a ho-hum script...
- When we were kids, dinosaurs were ho-hum, like a lot of very old things, but in the last 10 or 20 years there has been a real upsurge in interest.
- Short-but-sweet is better than drawn-out and ho-hum.
- Maybe this is not surprising as the hacks focus on the main game - the federal election this year - and the fact that state politics have become so predictable and ho-hum.
Origin
1920s: imitative of a yawn.
Rhymes
- permitted hours
- permittee
- permitter
- permittivity
- permix
- permixed
- permixtion
- Permo-Pennsylvanian
- Permo–Carboniferous
- Permo–Triassic
- permsec
- perm. sec.
- permselective
- permselectivity
- permutability
- permutable
- permutably
- permutant
- permutate
- permutation
- permutational
- permutation group
- permutationist
- permutation lock
- permutative