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...

   • 2007 August 24, William Grimes, “Uh, Lead My Rips: No More Bloopers”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 4 January 2013:

     As the years go by, speech reverts to childhood levels of disfluency, with more pauses, more errors, more repeated words, but even the peak years are not great: up to 8 percent of the average person’s word output consists of meaningless fillers and placeholders like um, uh and er.

   • 2024 June 24, “Baldwin Judge on FIRE!”, in Law of Self Defense‎^[2], page 1:

     And the very highly paid legal defense team for Alec Baldwin, uh basically Manhattan lawyers from uh Emmanuel Quinn, a top 50 worldwide law firm, highly paid.

• 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 The New York Times‎^[3], archived from the original on 4 January 2013:

     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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʌ/

uh

1. (music, informal) Alternative form of a (“The fourth semiquaver (sixteenth note) of a beat”).

• HU, Hu, hu

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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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

uh

1. romanization of 𒄴 (uḫ)

uh

1. moon

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