Interjection

!

1. Used to fill in the gap of a pause with a vocalized sound.

Noun

1. Someone who is afraid of change to the point of total inaction. (From a book by Spencer Johnson, M.D., Who moved my cheese, about a character who was always against change.)

Etymology 2

From Middle English , , in turn from Old English and related to Middle High German , Old Norse . The PIE root gave rise also to Armenian and Russian .

Noun

1. The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together.
2. A rim or margin of something.

Verb

1. (in sewing) To make a hem.
2. (in speaking) To make a sound like hem (usually coupled with "haw" as in "hemmed and hawed.")
3. : To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something.
4. : To surround something or someone in a confining way.

Etymology 3

, , originally a dative plural form but in Middle English coming to serve as an accusative plural as well.

Pronoun

1. Them (typically after a preposition, or otherwise with accusative or dative force).

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Pronoun

hem

1. Third-person singular, masculine, objective: him.

   Stuur dat maar naar hem. — Send that to him.

Related terms

See Wiktionary:Dutch inflection

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Noun

hem

1. home; one's dwelling place, as in a house or a more general geographical place; the abiding place of the affections.

See also

• hemåt
• hemma
• heim
• ham
• hamlet
• holm
• haus
• house
• huse