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Definition of um exclamation from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

um

exclamation

/ʌm/,

/əm/

/ʌm/,

/əm/

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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.

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