Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- interjection Used to express interrogation, surprise, contempt, or indifference.
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- interjection used to express
amusement or subtlesurprise . - interjection Used to express
doubt orconfusion . - interjection Used to
reinforce aquestion . - interjection this sense) (
slang , with falling pitch) Used either tobelittle the issuer of a statement/question, orsarcastically to indicate utter agreement, and that the statement being responded to is an extremeunderstatement . The intonation is changed to distinguish between the two meanings - implieddullness for belittlement, andfeigned surprise for utter agreement. - interjection informal Used to indicate that one did not hear what was said.
- interjection informal Used to create a
tag question .
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Examples
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I know maybe only the ultra wealthy should have the privaliage to drive, the working people can ride horses again huh?
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Cant tell the difference between weather and climate again huh?
Think Progress » Virginia GOP Mocks Epic Snow Storm As ‘12 Inches Of Global Warming’ 2010
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The money is drying up, delegates are defecting and still according to a twisted kind of math that only the Clinton's could cook up she can still win huh?
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Anonymous thinks .. ah what a world we live in huh?
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The emphatic "huh" - if you ask someone a specific question related to a statement they made previously and they answer you with a "huh."
LOVEBSCOTT.COM 2009
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Uh, huh, that is the only way they could figure that out.
Amoeba Gets Underfoot EliRabett 2010
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For example, the herb Bo He pronounced baw huh, which is peppermint, can stimulate cellular vibration in the liver.
Tao I Dr. 2010
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For example, the herb Bo He pronounced baw huh, which is peppermint, can stimulate cellular vibration in the liver.
Tao I Dr. 2010
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If its Not Hillary im voting for mcCain (Bushs 3 rd term huh?) alot of you are very Dumb.
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Yea right, uh huh, that is EXACTLY what Dean Koontz would say.
yarb commented on the word huh
'A God of Love - huh!'
- Peter Reading, C, 1984
July 23, 2008
bilby commented on the word huh
Uhh.
July 23, 2008
whichbe commented on the word huh
Somehow I intermittently strongly love or hate this word when people respond to me with it, depending on my mood. It's such a grunt!
August 15, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word huh
Yeah, it really is! I feel similarly about "Heh."
August 15, 2008
lolidkidc commented on the word huh
idk I love it
July 23, 2022