ahh
ahh is the alternative spelling of aah.
ahh is the pronunciation spelling of ass.
ahh is the alternative form of -ahh. Occurs after an adjective or phrase.
Meaning of aah
Interjection
- Indication of amazement or surprise or enthusiasm.
- Aah! That's amazing!
- Indication of joyful pleasure.
- Yet I remember—aah! how should I forget?1834, Edgar Allan Poe, The Assignation
- Indication of sympathy.
- Aah, I feel so bad for you...
- Indication of mouth being opened wide.
- Dentists would always instruct, say aah!
- To express understanding.
- Aah. Now I understand.
- The sound of one screaming (with as many a's or h's as needed for emphasis).
- AAAHHH! A bug! A bug! Get it off me! Get it off me!
Meaning of ass
Noun (1)
ass (plural asses)
- Any of several species of horse-like animals, especially Equus asinus, the domesticated of which are used as beasts of burden.
- And Iesse tooke an asse laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by Dauid his sonne vnto Saul.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 16:20
- A stupid or inconsiderate person.
- Near-synonyms: fool, idiot, jerk, asswipe; see also Thesaurus:jerk
- A compositor.
- Sometimes by way of joke, and sometimes by way of irritation, compositors are called Asses by the pressmen.[1841, William Savage, Dictionary of the Art of Printing, page 24
Noun (2)
ass (countable and uncountable, plural asses)
- The buttocks.
- Synonyms:
- 'tocks, arse, arse cheeks, ass cheeks, back, backside, batty, behind, blessed assurance, booty
- The anus.
- Train compartment: two sick young junkies on their way to Lexington tear their pants down in convulsions of lust. One of them soaps his cock and works it up the other's ass with a corkscrew motion.1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 81
- Sex; a person to have sex with; with vulgar emphasis on their corporeality (their body) over their personhood.
- I'm going to go down to the bar and try to get me some ass.
- Synonyms:
- poontang, poon, punani, pussy, tail, tang, aphrodisia, carnal knowledge, coitus, coition
Forms of ahh
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | ahhs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | ahhs |
| present participle | ahhing |
| past participle | ahhed |
| past | ahhed |
Origin of ahh
Respelling of ass representing a pronunciation with elision of the final consonant, which can occur in African-American Vernacular English. Later non-African American Vernacular English uses are perhaps derived from, or influenced by, -ahh (“-ass”). Equivalent to ass + -h.
Questions about ahh
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- Ahh is the alternative spelling of aah.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ahh (page history and authors); aah (page history and authors); ass (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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