'um
pron
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Definitions
Pronoun
- 1 Alternative form of 'em. alt-of, alternative
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
Contracted from them.
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