Wow vs Uh - What's the difference?
wow | uh |
An indication of excitement or surprise.
* 1513 , (Gavin Douglas), Virgil Æneid (translation) vi. Prol. 19 :
An expression of amazement or awe.
Used sarcastically to express disapproval of something.
(informal) An exceptionally surprising or unbelievable fact.
A relatively slow form of flutter (pitch variation) which can affect both gramophone records and tape recorders.
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 wow
is an indication of excitement or surprise.As a verb wow
is (informal) to amaze or awe.As a noun wow
is (informal) an exceptionally surprising or unbelievable fact.As a pronoun uh is
i (first-person singular pronoun) .wow
English
(wikipedia wow)Interjection
(en interjection)- Out on thir wanderand spiritis, wow! thow cryis.
- Wow! How do they do that?
- Wow... I can't believe you would do such a thing.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* wowzer, wowser * wowsers * wowzahNoun
(en noun)- He did? That's a wow !
Anagrams
* ----uh
English
Interjection
(en-interj)- Uh , who was that?
- Uh , let me see...
See also
* er * erm * um * uh-oh * ohNoun
(en noun)citation