mlem

Onomatopoeia.

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:

     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.

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