hummed-and-hah'ed

Updated: May 18, 2025

But the audience took the point immediately, and the clapping of hands and stamping were this time both loud and long. And now something happened which Yellow-cap could not at first understand. The King hummed-and-hah'ed and looked rather embarrassed, but said nothing, and by and by began searching in his pockets as if he had mislaid something.

Julian Hawthorne - Yellow-Cap and Other Fairy-Stories For Children