mlem

Onomatopoeia.

• IPA^(key): /mlɛm/

• Audio (US):

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mlem (plural mlems)

1. (Internet slang, of an animal) The act or sound of extending the tongue to lick something, especially one's own nose, without opening the mouth fully.
   • 2017 December 11, Jessica Boddy (for NPR), "Dogs are Doggos", in What Do You Meme, page 21:

     When they stick out their tongues, they're doing a mlem, a blep, a blop. They bork. They boof.

   • 2017, Matt Nelson, #WeRateDogs: The Most Hilarious and Adorable Pups You've Ever Seen, Skyhorse, →ISBN:

     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.”

   • 2019 June 22, Dot Wordsworth, “The barking world of ‘doggo lingo’”, in The Spectator‎^[1]:

     Anyway, despite an extent less than a German shepherd’s mlem, the language of cute social media dog sites is known as DoggoLingo. It’s as well to be aware of such things.

   • 2019 September 30, Maine Cannabis Chronicle, volume I, issue III, page 44:

     Love running on the beach and in the woods and kayak adventures, snuggles and sleeping, mlem. Am I a good boy?

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:mlem.

• blep

• Lemm, meml., MMEL, Mem'l

Onomatopoeia.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [məː˨˩ lɛm˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [məː˦˩ lɛm˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [məː˨˩ lɛm˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: mờ lem

mlem

1. (Internet slang) marks that one drools with uncontrollable desire