Uh

Quick meaning: Uh is an interjection meaning Expression of thought, confusion, or uncertainty.

Meaning

Expression of thought, confusion, or uncertainty.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

Uh, let me see.

Uh, who was that?

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.

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.

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