huh vs yessir

huh

intj
  • Used to express amusement or subtle surprise. 

  • Used to express doubt or confusion. 

  • Used to create a tag question. 

  • Used to indicate that one did not hear what was said. 

  • Used to reinforce a question. 

  • Used either to belittle the issuer of a statement/question, or sarcastically to indicate utter agreement, and that the statement being responded to is an extreme understatement. The intonation is changed to distinguish between the two meanings - implied dullness for belittlement, and feigned surprise for utter agreement. 

yessir

intj
  • Used to express emphatic affirmation. 

  • Used to express assent, especially to a male superior. 

noun
  • Term of address to a male; mate; buddy. 

How often have the words huh and yessir occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )