Um
[(ə)m] or [ʌm;əm]
Examples
- He always used to say 'twas his nose bleedn, till he must have pomped all the blood out of 'um. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- At t'wurd suards, ye drors um hout, tekin a farm un possitif grip o'th'hilt! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- His eyes glistened as he laid his hat on the table, and said-- 'What is the business upon which--um? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Ru-um-tum-tum, sang the reddleman. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Ru-um-tum-tum, sang Wildeve. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Um, a pretty voice, at any rate,' murmured the little old gentleman; 'but that's nothing. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- They made an unsuccessful siege of Lilyb?um, the chief surviving Carthaginian stronghold in Sicily. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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