Word.ws English Dictionary

yeow

yeow interjection: expressing sudden pain or startlement.

Interjection

  1. Expressing sudden pain or startlement.
    • Yeow! I don't think I could recommend going to this extreme, but the story certainly illustrates the lengths to which one is inspired to go to experience the feeling of steam-cleaned skin.1999, Annie Berthold-Bond, Better Basics for the Home: Simple Solutions for Less Toxic Living
    • "You see anything?" Yeow! I jumped ten feet in the air, dropping the lamp in the process.1995, Robin Gibson, The Sheriff of Whiskey City

Forms of yeow

alternative formyeouch
alternative formyeowch
alternative formyeowchie
alternative formyeowtch

Origin of yeow

Onomatopoeic; compare ow, yowch, etc.

Words that rhyme with yeow

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about yeow

What does yeow mean?
Yeow means expressing sudden pain or startlement.
What part of speech is yeow?
Yeow is an interjection.

Words near yeow in the dictionary

  1. yeouch
  2. Yeoval
  3. Yeovil
  4. Yeovilton
  5. Yeovilton and District
  6. yeow
  7. Yeowart
  8. yeowch
  9. yeowchie
  10. Yeowell
  11. yeowoman

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: yeow (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “yeow.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/yeow. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.