exclamation
(BrE) the sound that people make when they are deciding what to say next:
'Will you do it?' 'Er, yes, I suppose so.' * I'm, er, I'm going now
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for er is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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