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oooh

oooh interjection: elongated form of ooh.

Interjection

  1. Elongated form of ooh.

Verb

oooh (third-person singular simple present ooohs, present participle ooohing, simple past and past participle ooohed)

  1. Elongated form of ooh.

Noun

oooh (plural ooohs)

  1. Elongated form of ooh.
    • I tried listening to the radio, but it was making the same "ooohs" and "aaahs," helped out by gentlemanly tones which blathered about this "magnificent spectacle" and "unique phenomenon" until I began to feel that there was a parry for all the world going on, with me as the only person not invited.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 14

Forms of oooh

Verb
third-person singular presentooohs
present participleooohing
past participleooohed
pastooohed
Noun
pluralooohs

Questions about oooh

What does oooh mean?
Oooh means elongated form of ooh.
What part of speech is oooh?
Oooh can be an interjection, a verb or a noun.

Words near oooh in the dictionary

  1. oontzy
  2. oonuclei
  3. oonucleus
  4. oonuh
  5. ooo
  6. oooh
  7. ooohed
  8. ooohing
  9. ooohs
  10. ooooh
  11. OOOP

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