uh

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1. Pronunciation spelling of a

   “Gimme uh dollar.”

intj

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

1. Expression of thought, confusion, or uncertainty.

   “Uh, who was that?”

2. Space filler or pause during conversation.

   “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.”

noun

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