um の定義/意味

• English - Interjection: um Expression of hesitation , uncertainty or space filler in conversation . Um , I don’t know. Let’s see... um ... how about this? (US) Dated spelling of mmm . 1963, Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle, Dell Publishing Co., Inc., page 65: "About the same, wherever you go," he agreed." Um ," I said. An expression to forcefully call attention to something wrong. Um , excuse me! (childish) An expression of…
• English - Verb: um (third-person singular simple present ums, present participle umming, simple past and past participle ummed) (intransitive) To make the um sound to express uncertainty or hesitancy. 2007, Michael Erard, Um... Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean, page 136: Meanwhile, in the popular mind umming was simply a bad habit, akin to spitting or picking one’s nose.
• English - Noun: um (plural ums) An occurrence of the interjection "um". 2007 August 24, William Grimes, “Uh, Lead My Rips: No More Bloopers”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2013: Although Shakespeare refers to “h ums 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…
• English - Particle: um (dated, humorous, offensive, often, sometimes) 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. 1871, “Grand camp meeting on Bear River”, in The Keepapitchinin, volume III, page 3:…
• English - Anagrams: mu , Mu , MU