ahm

ahm

1. Alternative form of um.
   • 2008, Stephen V. Masse, “Tape Twenty-One”, in A Jolly Good Fellow, Boston, Mass.: Good Harbor Press, →ISBN, page 192:

     “Ahm—why don’t you go back with Dad and Uncle Eugene. I’ll be over in a jiffy…” Gabriel looks up at her confused, but then takes off for his old man.

   • 2012, Tad C. Rhoden, “Night Things”, in Don’t Call Me Hobbit: A Novel, Bradenton, Fla.: BookLocker.com, Inc., →ISBN, page 92:

     “You dwarves really believe in that old hag?” The soldier continued without waiting for an answer. “Ahm… You are dwarfin, pretty miss? I mean, well, you dress dwarfin, but you don’t look it.”

   • 2014, Chris O’Dowd, Nick V[incent] Murphy, “Three for a Girl, Four for a Boy”, in The Blunder Years (Moone Boy; 1), London: Macmillan Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 48:

     ‘Did you brush your teeth?’ […] ‘Ahm . . . No, my toothbrush . . . ahm . . . fell on to the . . . the ceiling.’ He shook his head at himself.

Borrowed from Finnish ahma, from Proto-Finnic *ahma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑhm/, [ˈɑhˑm̥]
• Rhymes: -ɑhm
• Hyphenation: ahm

ahm (genitive ahmi, partitive ahmi) or
ahm (genitive ahma, partitive ahma)

1. wolverine, glutton (Gulo gulo)

   Synonym: kaljukass

• (wolverine): kaljukass

• ahmima (“to hog”)

• ahm in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “ahm”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

ahm

1. yum!

• mah