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er [er ers] BrE [ɜː(r)] NAmE [ɜːr] (also erm) exclamation (BrE) the sound that people make when they are deciding what to say next •‘Will you do it?’ ‘Er, yes, I suppose so.’ •I'm, er, I'm going now See also: ↑erm Word Origin: natural utterance: first recorded in English in the mid 19th cent.
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