exclamation
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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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 um is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does um appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — um appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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