uh

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

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• IPA^(key): /ʌː/
• Rhymes: -ʌ

uh

1. Expression of thought, confusion, or uncertainty.

   Uh, who was that?

2. Space filler or pause during conversation.

   Uh, let me see...

• May be extended by repeating the letter u or h to express increasingly severe confusion:

Uuuuh / Uhhhh, right, that makes sense, I guess.

• er
• erm
• um
• uh-oh
• oh

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.

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uh

1. er, uh

   Synonyms: eh, ehm, um

uh

1. (astronomy) moon

• The murmured vowel IPA^(key): /ṳ/

uh (upper case Uh)

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

uh

1. Obsolete form of uf.

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

• IPA^(key): /u/, /uː/
• Homophone: u

uh

1. Used to express disappointment or disdain.

• “uh”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

uh

1. Romanization of 𒄴 (uḫ)

uh

1. moon

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