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er

exclamation

🔊/ɜː(r)/

🔊/ɜːr/

(also erm)

(British English)

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the sound that people make when they are deciding what to say next（思索接着说什么时发出的声音）哦，嗯
- ‘Will you do it?’ ‘Er, yes, I suppose so.’“你会干这事儿吗？” “哦，会的，我想我会。”🔊🔊
- I’m, er, I’m going now.我，嗯，我要走了。
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Word Originnatural utterance: first recorded in English in the mid 19th cent.