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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

  1. Indication of amazement or surprise or enthusiasm.
    • Aah! That's amazing!
  2. Indication of joyful pleasure.
    • Yet I remember—aah! how should I forget?1834, Edgar Allan Poe, The Assignation
  3. Indication of sympathy.
    • Aah, I feel so bad for you...
  4. Indication of mouth being opened wide.
    • Dentists would always instruct, say aah!
  5. To express understanding.
    • Aah. Now I understand.
  6. 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!

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Meaning of ass

Noun (1)

ass (plural asses)

  1. 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
  2. (often, vulgar, noun sense 1) A stupid or inconsiderate person.
    • Near-synonyms: fool, idiot, jerk, asswipe; see also Thesaurus:jerk
  3. (obsolete, slang) 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)

  1. (US, slang, vulgar) The buttocks.
  2. (US, slang, vulgar) 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
  3. (US, slang, uncountable, vulgar) 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.

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Forms of ahh

Noun
pluralahhs
Verb
third-person singular presentahhs
present participleahhing
past participleahhed
pastahhed

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

What is ahh the alternative spelling of?
Ahh is the alternative spelling of aah.

Words near ahh in the dictionary

  1. Aherne
  2. Ahernes
  3. Aherns
  4. aheylite
  5. aheylites
  6. ahh
  7. ahh, Bisto
  8. ahhed
  9. ahhing
  10. Ahhiyawa
  11. Ahhnold

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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