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eh

interjection C2
  1. Hey, oi; said to get someone's attention.
  2. An interjection expressing disapproval. · Eh, please don’t say that...
  3. Huh?; expresses confusion.
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Standing at a safe distance, the Wolf exclaimed, “You have unrighteously taken that which was mine from me!” To which the Lion jeeringly replied, “It was righteously yours, eh?
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 44 · B2
“What have you been doing all this time, eh?”
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 62 · C1
Perhaps I shall get the credit also at some distant day, when I permit my zealous historian to lay out his foolscap once more—eh, Watson?
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 63 · C1
And who instructed you, eh?”
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 107 · C1

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