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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • interjection Used to express doubt or uncertainty or to fill a pause when hesitating in speaking.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as om.
  • noun A prefix of Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian origin, meaning ‘around, about,’ cognate with ambi- and amphi-. It was formerly common, but is now wholly obsolete, except in a few Scotch words.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • preposition Alternative form of umbe.
  • interjection Expression of confusion or space filler in conversation. See uh.
  • verb intransitive To make the um sound to express confusion or hesitancy.
  • noun Alternative spelling of µm.

Etymologies

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From Middle English, from Old Norse um, umb ("around, about"), from Proto-Germanic *umbi (“around”), from Proto-Indo-European *ambʰi- (“by, around”). Cognate with Old English ymbe ("around"). More at umbe.

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A Latin-script rendering of µm.

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same context (45)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. 2nd
  2. Arp
  3. Davidson
  4. adductus
  5. am
  6. b
  7. beat
  8. blei
  9. blong
  10. dain
  11. do
  12. eth0
  13. g
  14. gerere
  15. had
  16. hangta
  17. hmac-md5
  18. hortum
  19. iing
  20. iuh
  21. k
  22. kait
  23. lieng
  24. man
  25. maxillae
  26. mean
  27. nta
  28. pler
  29. prithee
  30. psychologic
  31. quibuscum
  32. return
  33. ryndang
  34. shong
  35. sorcerous
  36. suus
  37. think
  38. trai
  39. tynga
  40. u
  41. understand
  42. us
  43. would
  44. x
  45. you

rhymes (42)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Brum
  2. Krum
  3. Mum
  4. alum
  5. become
  6. brum
  7. bum
  8. chum
  9. clum
  10. come
  11. crum
  12. crumb
  13. cum
  14. drum
  15. dum
  16. dumb
  17. from
  18. frum
  19. glum
  20. grum
  21. gum
  22. hum
  23. lum
  24. mum
  25. mumm
  26. mumme
  27. numb
  28. plum
  29. plumb
  30. rum
  31. scum
  32. slum
  33. some
  34. strum
  35. stum
  36. succumb
  37. sum
  38. swum
  39. thum
  40. thumb
  41. umm
  42. yum

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  • yarb commented on the word um

    "Faith, sir, I've-"

    "Faith? What's that?"

    "Why, faith, sir, it's only a sort of exclamation-like--that's all, sir."

    "Um, um; go on."

    - Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 127

    July 31, 2008