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
- An interrogative exclamation expressive of inquiry, doubt, or slight surprise.
- n. An abbreviation of electrical horse power.
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. Canada an interjection used to ascertain the continued attention of an individual addressed by the speaker
- adj. informal Of bad quality.
GNU Webster's 1913
- interj. An expression of inquiry or slight surprise.
Examples
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“* deeeee dooooooo** eh oh eh oh eh** ert kssssssssshhhhhhhh kssssssssssssshhhhhhh*”
“eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh~ stop telefoning moi~ stop callin stop callin im dun huanna talk anymoars~”
“Try to keep abreast of the title eh?, this thread's going tits up you know.”
“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".”
“Prison guards allowed you near a computer again eh hood ..?”
“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”
“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”
“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
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘eh’.
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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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Interjections spelled with only H's a...
ha!, aha!, ho ho ho!, hee hee!, oho!, uh-oh, heh, heh-heh, oh, ah, huh, eh and 12 more...
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Grunts, Sounds, Calls
Aah, achoo, ack, ah, aha, ahem, ah-ha, aw, baa, bah, blah, boo and 64 more...
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expressive interjections
little words that make a big difference
Aha, Ack, Ah, Ahem, Aw, Argh, Aye, Bah, Blah, blech, boo, boo-hoo 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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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 3063 more... -
Canadianisms
Canuck, timbit, Timbit, inukshuk, Canadianism, spiked, hyderize, canuckistan, Canuckistan, hoser, double double, Triumf and 373 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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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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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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travellers' tales
Useful words to have in your backpack.
safavid, almohad, alhambra, taklamakan, wado, inukshuk, eh, ghazal, euskera, xocolatl, kleinur, janglinanga and 3 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...
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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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2 Letter Scrabble Words
All playable 2 letter Scrabble words from OSPD4
aa, ab, ad, ae, ag, ah, ai, al, am, an, ar, as and 87 more...
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Random and Lovely Words.
:)
scrupulous, evasive, dandy, lovely, complacent, pickle, tomato, jingle, chipper, telepathy, snicker, wry and 74 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for eh.
cricket eh? Feb 2, 2008
chained_bear Do Canadian's use apostrophe's like this in normal situation's too?
;) Oct 22, 2007
jaymediane
The Canadian word that can change any sentence into a question (no matter what). Oct 22, 2007