nuff-nuff
n.— «Getting It Wrong: Mr Sandler and his nuff-nuff voice in The Waterboy.» —“Movie Heaven & Mirth” by Leigh Paatsch Herald Sun (Melbourne, Australia) May 13, 1999. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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