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Primarily Tone With Awfully Nasal Grating

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noun

• a sharp vibrating sound (as of a plucked string)

• exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects)

verb

• cause to sound with a twang

• sound with a twang

• twitch or throb with pain

• pluck (strings of an instrument)

• pronounce with a nasal twang

33%6 A little faint, wan gynaecologist with nasal tone
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29%4 To express discontent with a grating or nasal sound
noun

• A vocalization similar to a cat's purring.

verb

• To grimace; to snarl.

• To whinge, moan, complain.

• To make elaborate unnatural and distorted faces as a form of amusement or in a girning competition.

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