ahem
Speech parts
1. ahem - Noun
2. ahem - Verb
3. ahem - Interjection
Meaning
An exclamation to call one's attention; hem.
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She was only a year old, but elves grew up fast. Not like witches, who Jenks swore were not able to be on their own until they were thirty. Ahem.
And, crucially, we’ve got the time to work it all out (if you’re not, ahem, trying to hold down a full time job and an unplanned side hustle as a primary school teacher for which you are decidedly unqualified).
According to Business Insider, the human body produces somewhere in the neighborhood of when laying in bed every single year (ahem, gross).
Every year, veteran sex-advice columnist mounts (ahem) HUMP, an amateur, pornographic short film festival, which tours around Canada and the USA for a dazzling evening of smut, humor, tenderness, weirdness and delight.
In his ruffled shirt, gold watch and pinkie ring Pattinson’s preacher oozes the lustful hypocrisy of famous American preachers past and, ahem, present.
Ahead (ahem) of another season of frightening folks at Conner Prairie, we chatted with the maestro of malice about traversing the grounds on horseback, and his hopes for the future.