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ooh
[ oo ]
interjection
- (used to express amazement, satisfaction, excitement, etc.)
noun
- the exclamation “ooh.”
verb (used without object)
- to utter or exclaim “ooh.”
ooh
/ uː /
interjection
- an exclamation of surprise, pleasure, pain, etc
Word History and Origins
Origin of ooh1
Idioms and Phrases
- ooh and aah, to exclaim in wonder or admiration:
The crowds oohed and aahed at the spectacular fireworks.
Example Sentences
On ballads like “All You Ever Need,” he croons, “You ask what I like about you/ Ooh, I love it all.”
Ooh, and when I finish writing each day, to give myself a boost, I stop in the middle of a sentence.
But when he grudgingly appeared with bottle in hand, he did a double take—"Ooh!"
There are some tolerable offerings out there, but nothing much that moves the needle on the “ooh” meter.
(“Ooh, she looks so cute,” whispered one upon sighting Zooey Deschanel, who also stars in My Idiot Brother).
This was some protection at least from the wintry blasts which, by now, were moaning, "Whoo-ooh-whee-eeeh!"
"Ooh eye, ooh eye," repeated she twice, as if she didn't understand.
We use consonants where the bird uses none, as when we give the name cuckoo to a bird whose cry is really "ooh, ooh."
A grum, melancholy note came floating over the long sea swells—Oo-oo-oo-ooh!
Up from the south came a faint, long-drawn, mournful voice, Oo-oo-oo-ooh!
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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