Oof vs Uh - What's the difference?
oof | uh |
A sound mimicking the loss of air, as if someone's solar plexus had just been struck.
Money.
* 1888 , , Colonel Quaritch V.C. (
* 1911–1912 , published 1916, , The World For Sale , book 2, chapter 10 (
Expression of confusion or uncertainty.
Space filler or pause during conversation.
An occurrence of the interjection "uh".
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 24, author=William Grimes, title=Uh, Lead My Rips: No More Bloopers, work=New York Times
, passage=Although Shakespeare refers to “hums and ha’s,” sifting through etiquette manuals and public-speaking guides turns up scant evidence of a prohibition against ums, ers and uhs , which are profuse in the first recording of Thomas Edison ’s voice, in 1888. Mr. Erard, rather ingeniously, traces the prohibition on um and other speech flaws to the advent of radio in the early 1920s. }}
As an interjection oof
is a sound mimicking the loss of air, as if someone's solar plexus had just been struck.As a noun oof
is money.As a pronoun uh is
i (first-person singular pronoun) .oof
English
Etymology 1
(onomatopoeia)Interjection
(en interjection)Etymology 2
From (ooftish) or possibly connected with (etyl)Noun
(-)archive.org ebook), page 232:
- “Oh,” Johnnie was saying, “so Quest is his name, is it, and he lives in a city called Boisingham, does he? Is he an oof bird?” (rich)
“Rather,” answered the Tiger, “if only one can make the dollars run, but he's a nasty mean boy, he is.
Gutenberg ebook], [http://www.archive.org/details/worldforsaleano00parkgoog archive.org ebook):
- What's he after? Oof—oof—oof , that's what he's after. He's for his own pocket, he's for being boss of all the woolly West. He's after keeping us poor and making himself rich.
Derived terms
* oof-bird * oofless * oofyAnagrams
* foo English onomatopoeiasuh
English
Interjection
(en-interj)- Uh , who was that?
- Uh , let me see...
See also
* er * erm * um * uh-oh * ohNoun
(en noun)citation