Uh

/ʌː/ · interjection

Meaning

Expression of thought, confusion, or uncertainty..

Definitions by Sense

1. Expression of thought, confusion, or uncertainty.
2. Space filler or pause during conversation.
3. An occurrence of the interjection "uh".
4. (music, informal) Alternative form of a (“The fourth semiquaver (sixteenth note) of a beat”).

Example Sentences

Uh, who was that?

Uh, let me see...

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.

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.

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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• uhs

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