um

or umm

[ uhm, uhn, uhm, uhn ]

interjection

1. (used as an expression of doubt, hesitation, deliberation, interest, etc.)

um

¹

the internet domain name for

1. US Minor Outlying Islands

um

²

/ ʌm; əm /

interjection

1. a representation of a common sound made when hesitating in speech

Example Sentences

“Um, I have one now, for one,” Kirke laughs, about that new relationship.

From The Daily Beast

Um, when I first heard of it, it was somebody hitting me up on Twitter telling me I should be playing Whitney.

From The Daily Beast

Um, I was getting ready for Talking Dead so I would try to check in, but I also was like a little bit…scared?

From The Daily Beast

And Glenn, Tara, and Rosita spend the episode, um, learning to fish.

From The Daily Beast

Er, um, because the people dying of Ebola in West Africa are black?

From The Daily Beast

"Um, that's better," admitted Grace, while the girls craned their necks for a better view of the horseman.

From Project Gutenberg

Kano's transient flowers were grown, for the most part in pots, and these his daughter Um-ko loved to tend.

From Project Gutenberg

Um-ko and her father were well known at the temple, and worshipped often before its golden altars.

From Project Gutenberg

She peered at first into Um's room for there, indeed, lay the core of old Mata's heart.

From Project Gutenberg

Kano heard a man's deep tones, Mata's thin voice answering an enquiry, and then the soft murmur of Um's words.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• cry
• exclamation
• expletive
• insertion
• interpolation
• interposition
• shout