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ahem

[ pronounced with a small scraping sound accompanied or followed by a nasal; spelling pronunciation uh-hem, hem ]

interjection

  1. (an utterance similar to the sound of clearing one's throat, used to attract attention, express doubt or a mild warning, etc.)


ahem

/ əˈ³óÉ›³¾ /

interjection

  1. a clearing of the throat, used to attract attention, express doubt, etc
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Water services are different, because the 'switch for a better deal' advice simply doesn't, ahem, hold water.

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That may inform NBC's decision to edit Elon Musk’s hand gesture out of its live feed even though everyone who saw it understood it to mean something, ahem, we couldn't not see.

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Being of a certain age, I didn’t think much of it and chalked it up to simply growing, ahem, older.

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Every billionaire on the planet is lining up to kiss his . . . ahem, ring – and the rest of the world can kiss something else.

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"He's a tight-head prop with fast twitch. You just don't get them," he said, going on to compare their scarcity to "teddy bear", ahem, "manure".

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