eh

[ ey, e ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

interjection

(an interrogative utterance, usually expressing surprise or doubt or seeking confirmation).

/ eɪ /

an exclamation used to express questioning surprise or to seek the repetition or confirmation of a statement or question
Eh? What did you say?

Below her plea were the letters EH, where she had apparently encouraged him to sign up in a failed attempt to end his alcoholism.

The year will start bleakly—really going out on a limb there, eh?

Would have been nice if they'd been anywhere close to this skeptical back in 2003, eh?

It just ended with them in heaven and it was like, “Eh, okay.”

And finally, according to our neocon war caucus, we're supposed to let this guy bomb Iran, eh?

We might live very comfortably together now, Mr. Samuel, eh?

Here are pretty goings on—a pinch of your snuff, Perker, my boy—never were such times, eh?

It must come some time or another; and why not in the winter time when you dont want to go out a-walking so much; eh, Fagin?

Let some feller come in here with a gen'ral store, sellin' for cash—and cuttin' prices, eh?

You say that Mr. Fetherston met the young lady outside after luncheon, and they had an argument in secret, eh?

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