um - Definition, Meaning and Synonyms

intj

1
Expression of hesitation, uncertainty or space filler in conversation.
Um, I don’t know.
Similar
er hmm uh
2
Dated spelling of mmm.
"About the same, wherever you go," he agreed. "Um," I said.
3
An expression to forcefully call attention to something wrong.
Um, excuse me!

1
To make the um sound to express uncertainty or hesitancy.
Meanwhile, in the popular mind umming was simply a bad habit, akin to spitting or picking one’s nose.

nounums · UMs

1
An occurrence of the interjection "um".
Although Shakespeare refers to “hums and ha’s,” sifting through etiquette manuals and public-speaking guides turns up scant evidence of a prohibition against ums, ers and uhs, which are profuse in the first recording of Thomas Edison’s voice, in 1888. Mr. Erard, rather ingeniously, traces the prohibition on um and other speech flaws to the advent of radio in the early 1920s.
2
Initialism of unmounted mint.

particle

1
An undifferentiated determiner or article; a miscellaneous linking word, or filler with nonspecific meaning; representation of broken English stereotypically or comically attributed to Native Americans.
Me be Injun. Him um Growling Bear. Him um heap big chief.

name

Um