A person, often of
elitist persuasion, often women, who maximizes the duration of words while minimizing the duration of spaces between words because: (a) the person wishes to prevent interruption during speech, and/or (b) the person requires more time to create connecting sentences due to the influence of
mind-altering chemicals, such as
marijuana.
Related to: ummer
While narrating classic literature for a public radio program, a Berkeley
hummer from The New York Times took five minutes to read the opening
line of
Moby Dick, in the morning.