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duh

interjectioncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//dɜː//
  • United States//dʌ//
  • Australia//dʌ//
  • /[də̰ː˥˩]/
  • /[də̰ː˥˨]/

A disdainful indication that something is obvious.

interjection

  1. 1

    A disdainful indication that something is obvious.

    It's hot in the desert. - Well, duh!

  2. 2

    An indication of mock stupidity.

    Duhhh, I'm Jasmine, I can't even tie my shoe laces right!

  3. 3

    A nonsensical utterance by an individual about to go unconscious, especially if they're dizzy.

    Duuhh... I don't feel so good now...

Etymology

Imitative, indicating stupidity by mocking the speech of an intellectually disabled person.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).