Onomatopoeic .
erm ( UK or humorous )
Used inhesitant speech , or to expressuncertainty . Synonyms: um ,umm ,em ;eh ,uh She was going to,erm ... the salon, I think.
Used to express embarrassment or subtle disagreement. Erm , I don't think that was supposed to happen.
– Bob would never say something like that! –Erm , he just did.
Used innonrhotic dialects. Compareum andem . Also sees ironic use in other dialects. expression of uncertainty
indication of secondary message
-mer ,EMR ,MER ,MRE ,R.E.M. ,REM ,Rem ,mer ,mer- ,rem ,π-mer FromLate Latin erēmus , fromAncient Greek ἐρῆμος ( erêmos ) .
erm (feminine erma ,masculine plural erms ,feminine plural ermes )
deserted ,abandoned uncultivated ( not cultivated by agricultural methods ) erm m (plural erms )
wasteland “erm ”, inDiccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language ] (in Catalan), second edition,Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan:Institut d'Estudis Catalans ], April 2007 “erm ”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana ,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana ,2025 “erm” inDiccionari normatiu valencià ,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua .“erm” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear , Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.Ēn erm. (1.1) FromProto-West Germanic *arm .[ 1] Cognates includeOld English earm andOld Saxon arm .
erm m
( anatomy ) arm FromProto-West Germanic *arm .[ 1] Cognates includeOld English earm andOld Saxon *arm .
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poor ↑1.0 1.1 Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009 ),An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary , Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company,→ISBN , page29