Erm vs Eam - What's the difference?
erm | eam |
(UK)
(UK)
(dialectal, or, obsolete) Uncle.
*2011 , Ernest R. Holloway, Andrew Melville and Humanism in Renaissance Scotland 1545-1622 :
As an interjection erm
is Used in hesitant speech, or to express uncertainty; um, umm.As an initialism ERM
is initialism of w:Enterprise relationship management|Enterprise Relationship Management|lang=en.As a noun eam is
uncle.erm
English
Interjection
(en interjection)- She was going to, erm ... the salon, I think.
- Erm , I don't think that was supposed to happen.
- - Bob would never say something like that!
- Erm , he just did.
Anagrams
*eam
English
Alternative forms
* (l) * (l) (Scottish)Noun
(en noun)- James Melville remarked that during his uncle's time in Geneva he became “weill acquented with my eam , Mr. hendrie Scrymgeour” and was said to have been “a frequent visitor at his lodgings in town, and also at the Violet.