uh

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See also: uH, Uh, -uh, ùh, ūh, and ưh

English

Etymology

Onomatopoeia of the natural expression of thought. Compare with er.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʌː/
  • Rhymes: -ʌ

Interjection

uh

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  1. Expression of thought, confusion, or uncertainty.
    Uh, who was that?
  2. Space filler or pause during conversation.
    Uh, let me see...

Usage notes

  • May be extended by repeating the letter u or h to express increasingly severe confusion:
Uuuuh / Uhhhh, right, that makes sense, I guess.

Translations

See also

Noun

uh (plural uhs)

  1. An occurrence of the interjection "uh".
    • 2007 August 24, William Grimes, “Uh, Lead My Rips: No More Bloopers”, in New York Times‎:
      Although Shakespeare refers to “hums and ha’s,” sifting through etiquette manuals and public-speaking guides turns up scant evidence of a prohibition against ums, ers and uhs, which are profuse in the first recording of Thomas Edison’s voice, in 1888. Mr. Erard, rather ingeniously, traces the prohibition on um and other speech flaws to the advent of radio in the early 1920s.

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

Interjection

uh

  1. er, uh
    Synonyms: eh, ehm, um

Epigraphic Mayan

Noun

uh

  1. (astronomy) moon

Juǀ'hoan

Pronunciation

Letter

uh (upper case Uh)

  1. A letter of the Juǀ'hoan alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Romanian

Interjection

uh

  1. Obsolete form of uf.

References

  • uh in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Spanish

Pronunciation

Interjection

uh

  1. Used to express disappointment or disdain.

Further reading

Sumerian

Romanization

uh

  1. Romanization of 𒄴 (uḫ)

Yucatec Maya

Noun

uh

  1. moon
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