uh-huh
uh-HUH/ʌˈhʌ/
- 1Used in casual speech to mean yes, expressing agreement or assent with what someone has said.
"You're coming to the meeting at three?" "Uh-huh, I'll be there."
He kept murmuring uh-huh into the phone while scanning his email.
Note
Less a word than a sound put into writing: it imitates the noises listeners make to show agreement, or simply to let a speaker keep going. That second job matters. Murmured into a phone, it often means "I'm listening" more than "yes." Its closest relative is mhm, which does the same work. Sinclair Lewis already writes it into dialogue in Our Mr. Wrenn (1914).
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Origin
This word imitates the non-verbal sounds used to indicate agreement or to let a speaker keep talking, similar to "mhm."