um
exclamation /ʌm/, /əm/
/ʌm/, /əm/
- the way of writing the sound that people make when they hesitate, or do not know what to say next
- Um, I’m not sure how to ask you this…
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Word Originnatural utterance: first recorded in English in the early 17th cent.