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ooooh

ooooh interjection: elongated form of ooh.

Interjection

  1. Elongated form of ooh.
    • “I don't know, but they say it's not so bright now as it was in other places. Still, even if you'd had your bandages off today, I don't expect they'd have let you watch it. You'll have to take things gently at first, and some of the flashes are very bright. They -- Ooooh!” “Why ‘ooooh’?” I...1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 13
  2. Elongated form of oh.

Questions about ooooh

What does ooooh mean?
Ooooh means elongated form of ooh.
What part of speech is ooooh?
Ooooh is an interjection.

Words near ooooh in the dictionary

  1. ooo
  2. oooh
  3. ooohed
  4. ooohing
  5. ooohs
  6. ooooh
  7. OOOP
  8. OOOPs
  9. oop
  10. oopa
  11. Oopack

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