um

Um is defined as something you say to pause in a conversation or to show you're unsure.

(interjection)

An example of um is what you might say when a reporter asks you a question you're not sure you want to answer.

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See um in Webster's New World College Dictionary

or umm

interjection

uh (sense )

See um in American Heritage Dictionary 4

also umm

interjection
Used to express doubt or uncertainty or to fill a pause when hesitating in speaking.

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