obs. varr. of UM or UMPH.
1614. J. Cooke, Greene’s Tu Quoque, B 4. Bub. Vmh, vmh, vmh.
1616. S. S., Honest Lawyer, IV. G 1. Vm’h, my doubts Wrappe me in further maze.
1668. Dryden, Evening’s Love, IV. Umh! thou awaken’st a most villainous apprehension in me!
1702. Farquhar, Inconstant, II. i. Umh.—before that any young … Rakelly Fellow shou’d play such Tricks with me, I wou’d wear my Teeth to the stumps.
1740. Cibber, Apol. (1756), II. 31. With a slow hesitation … he reply’d—Umh! the best—umh!—I have tasted a great while.
