See um in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "particle",
"related": [
{
"word": "um-hum"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English dated terms",
"English humorous terms",
"English offensive terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
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19
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39,
41
]
],
"text": "Me be Injun. Him um Growling Bear. Him um heap big chief.",
"type": "example"
},
{
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26,
28
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67
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"ref": "1871, “Grand camp meeting on Bear River”, in The Keepapitchinin, volume III, page 3:",
"text": "“me heap brave—me talk to um white man so[…] me good injun, like um white man, mebbe so, ugh!”",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"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."
],
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"(dated, sometimes humorous, often offensive) 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."
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}
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