Russian "Verbal Fillers"?

[Hugh M. Olmsted]

Fill-words, hedge-words, dummy-words; a grab-bag of some more examples.

Cited in alphabetical order by initial word, followed in some cases by
square brackets containing hints of how the given examples may sound in
reduced form in actual speech, depending on application and ordering of
reduction rules.  Various function- and form-categories are represented,
with no effort to sort them out by type.

deviatoe i desiatoe
eto samoe
    (na eto samoe, okolo etogo samogo, v etom samom, k etomu samomu ...)

kak bish' ego
kak ego tam
kak eto samoe
kazhetsia [karatsa, kaatsa]
mozhet [morat, moot, mot]
mozhno skazat' [mora skat']
naprimer [napmer, naprer],
navernoe [nerna, nen, nan]
nu tak vot, znachit
nu vot
po-vidimomu
priamo, priamo-taki [priam, priam-taki]
primerno [pmena, prena]
skoree vsego [skaej vsio]
tak skazat' [taskat']
to-est' [tois']
v obshchem-to
vo-vo
voobshche govoria
vot eto samoe vot
    (vot na eto samoe vot, vot okolo etogo samogo vot, vot v etom samom
vot, vot k etomu samomu vot,...)
znachit [zanch]

Not to mention more and less znachimye/neznachimye expressions of
emotional reaction (varying, of course, with generation, register,
cultural milieu, etc.); tipa:
   bozhestvenneishe, kaif, klevo, nichego sebe, obaldenno, obaldet',
otpad, uboino, vaashche, vot eto da, zdorovsko, it.d., i t.p.

ili naoborot:
   ty chego, obaldel, chto li?

And there's always the classic line from Lipson's Hedge-ritual:
Voobshche govoria, mozhno skazat', chto kak pravilo, eto bolee ili
menee... Chto vy sprosili?