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oohing

oohing is the present participle and gerund of ooh.

Meaning of ooh

Verb

ooh (third-person singular simple present oohs, present participle oohing, simple past and past participle oohed)

  1. To exclaim ooh.
    • When they went into the royal chambers, we could hear them oohing and aahing.

See all 8 meanings of ooh

Noun

oohing (plural oohings)

  1. An ooh sound.
    • the oohings and aahings of the crowd

Forms of oohing

pluraloohings

Questions about oohing

What does oohing mean?
Oohing means an ooh sound.
What is oohing the present participle and gerund of?
Oohing is the present participle and gerund of ooh.
What part of speech is oohing?
Oohing is a noun.
What is the plural of oohing?
The plural of oohing is oohings.

Words near oohing in the dictionary

  1. ooh, matron
  2. ooh-ah-ah
  3. ooh-wee
  4. oohed
  5. ooher
  6. oohing
  7. oohings
  8. oohrah
  9. oohs
  10. OOI
  11. ooid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oohing (page history and authors); ooh (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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