Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- interj. Used in asking a question or in seeking repetition or confirmation of a statement.
- interj. Chiefly Canadian Used to ascertain or reinforce a listener's interest or agreement.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An abbreviation of electrical horse power.
- An interrogative exclamation expressive of inquiry, doubt, or slight surprise.
Wiktionary
- interj. Used as a tag question, to emphasise what goes before or to request that the listener express an opinion about what has been said.
- interj. In isolation, a request for repetition or clarification of what has just been said. Compare what, pardon.
- interj. an interjection used to ascertain the continued attention of an individual addressed by the speaker
GNU Webster's 1913
- interj. An expression of inquiry or slight surprise.
Etymologies
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Examples
“Tapos nung uwian eh akala pa namin eh naiwan kami ni Mica ng bus buti na lang nakita namin sina Kevin, Toptop, Meljune at Czedrick kasama si Sir Belandrez.”
“You can tell it's a Canadian cigarette 'cause it ends in "eh".”
“Anyway last year same farm early season, .. thought I was sooting a BIG doe satning in eh thick stuff at 30 yds, .. got up to the deer and one antler was very screwed up growing flat down the side of his face the other was just a point, .. less than three inches”
“Better to protec the public from idiots like this than to allow them to risk our lives again eh? on October 28, 2009 at 4: 59 pm Tony F”
“Prison guards allowed you near a computer again eh hood ..?”
“I immediately nominated Jamaica as the winner based on either total medals or gold medals per capita (hmmm, I may not get invited back there again eh?)!”
“Anonymous is correct - if you salt the crawfish before you purge them (while still in eh ice chest) it kinda sanatizes them, but also they are purged of any poop inside of them and are much cleaner.”
Lessons learned from my first crawfish boil | Homesick Texan
“December 6th, 2007 at 1: 56 pm jokerswild says: your dammit again eh?”
“Chris says: you little child molesters here are funny! fag - back mountain eh? never heard of it. careful god you just might get a cross burned yourself.”
“Krazny – i thought you let yourself in eh? who you callin wingnut - wingnut. you leftards have no intelligence and no argument.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘eh’.
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expressive interjections
little words that make a big difference
Bah, Blah, boo, Aha, Ack, Ah, Ahem, Aw, Argh, blech, boo-hoo, eek and 6 more...
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onyx the glue stick
there are a numbe..., none of which wou..., but i like my mes..., just ask me, ill tell you, it was white, eh, but not so much now, now it is an, aray of colors, thats what one ge..., not the kind in t... and 51 more...
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Interjections spelled with only H's and vowels
ha!, aha!, ho ho ho!, hee hee!, oho!, uh-oh, heh, heh-heh, oh, ah, huh, eh and 15 more...
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O Canada
Words known to Canadians. These may not be understood by other North Americans, eh?
zamboni, poutine, touque, zed, inukshuk, noseeum, timbits, Alberta clipper, beer parlour, bonspiel, CANDU, chesterfield and 35 more...
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South Yorkshire medical terminology
For definitions see the source document.
"All the words and phrases included in this guide are those that have been used by patients during consultations and have been included to assi...winkle, wind pipe, willy, widgy, well, it's a nogg..., wee-wee, water, uncle sam, tuppence, tummy ache, trotters, tootsies and 123 more...
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Acceptable two-letter Scrabble words
aa, ab, ad, ae, ag, ah, ai, al, am, an, ar, as and 89 more...
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I Live a (SOWPODS) Hardscrabble Life
aa, ad, ae, ah, ai, am, an, ar, as, at, aw, ax and 168 more...
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Jamaican Glossary
The liner notes that accompany Papa San's dancehall album God & i include this thoughtful list of Jamaican-to-American translations, to aid in understanding what the heck he's saying in each song.
yah, yeh, yuy, woulda, wort, wid, wi, wes', wen, whey, wau, wanda and 151 more...
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oh canada
Some of these are words that I've only heard from Canadians. Others are just words that are used or pronounced differently here.
keener, sleeve, about, phone, toque, soccer baseball, pasta, elastic, washroom, beaver tail, loonie, postal code and 23 more...
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OSPD4 two-letter words
za, ye, ya, xu, xi, wo, we, ut, us, up, un, um and 88 more...
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Really Cool Two-Letter Words
Tight but full of might.
id, ox, or, am, ho, pi, om, ur, xi, ad, ai, mu and 14 more...
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Bigrams
Two-letter words that are common. For a full list of all possible 2-letter words, check out this list.
my, by, ay, ax, ew, aw, ix, it, at, is, as, ox and 39 more...
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tidbits
ju, hi, me, be, mo, jo, ka, er, da, oh, ah, eh and 4 more...
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Random and Lovely Words.
:)
scrupulous, evasive, dandy, lovely, complacent, pickle, tomato, jingle, chipper, telepathy, snicker, wry and 74 more...
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slang
dang it, oh my gawd, crap, tsup, sup, nope, ya, fuck you, screw you, yo, l word, gee and 14 more...
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Filler Words
or, as some Speaking teachers say (I suspect to annoy me), "word whiskers"
um, umm, er, errr, hmm, hmmm, soooooo, yeah, and, like, well, uh and 18 more...
;) Oct 22, 2007
The Canadian word that can change any sentence into a question (no matter what). Oct 22, 2007