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interjectionnomarticlenomtop 1 000 des dialogues de films

  • //ʌː//
  • //ə//
  • //ˈʌ//

Expression of thought, confusion, or uncertainty.

interjection

  1. 1

    Expression of thought, confusion, or uncertainty.

    Uh, who was that?

  2. 2

    Expression of discomfort or reservation; a hesitation preceding awkward information or innuendo.

    He's receiving some, uh, special attention from the manager.

  3. 3

    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.

    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.

Étymologie

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

nom

  1. 1

    An occurrence of the interjection "uh".

    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.

article

  1. 1

    Variante de aPronunciation spelling of a

    Gimme uh dollar.

nom

  1. 1

    Variante de afamilierAlternative form of a (“The fourth semiquaver (sixteenth note) of a beat”).

Formes

pluriel
uhs
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).