huh
exclamation/hʌ/
/hʌ/
- people use Huh? at the end of questions, suggestions, etc., especially when they want somebody to agree with them
- So you won't be coming tonight, huh?
- Let's get out of here, huh?
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- people say Huh! to show anger, surprise, disagreement, etc. or to show that they are not impressed by something
- Huh! Is that all you've done?
- ‘Try to understand.’ ‘Huh! What is there to understand?’
- (North American English) (British English eh)people say Huh? to show that they have not heard what somebody has just said
- ‘Are you feeling OK?’ ‘Huh?’
see also uh-huh
Word Originnatural utterance: first recorded in English in the early 17th cent.
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