Usually means: Hesitation sound indicating thinking, uncertainty.
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  1. Umm, umm: Wordnik
  2. umm: Wiktionary
  3. umm: Dictionary.com
  4. UMM (disambiguation), UMM, Umm: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. umm: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. UMM: Acronym Finder
  2. UMM: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Umm)

verb:  Alternative form of um (“to make the umm sound to express confusion or hesitancy”). [(intransitive) To make the um sound to express uncertainty or hesitancy.]

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ah, uh, hmm

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er, uh, um, ah, more...

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ah, uh, hmm

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