'um

See also: Appendix:Variations of "um"

English

Etymology

Contracted from them.

Pronoun

'um

1. Alternative form of 'em
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

     They call themselves gentlemen, I warrant you; but, as my first husband used to say, they should remember it is we that pay them. And to be sure it is very hard upon us to be obliged to pay them, and to keep 'um too, as we publicans are.

Derived terms

• no-see-um

Anagrams

• -mu-, MU, Mu, mu