ooh

• oooh, ooooh

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /uː/

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• Rhymes: -uː

ooh (with as many 'o's as needed to express the length of the utterance)

1. An expression of surprise.
2. An expression of awe.
   • 2013, Tom Turpin, Modern Custom Guns: Walnut, Steel, and Uncommon Artistry, 2nd edition, Iola, Wis.: Gun Digest Books, →ISBN, page 47:

     The most underrated component in building a custom gun is the metalsmithing. Stock work immediately attracts attention. Fancy checkering patterns, meticulously executed, are sure to elicit oohs and ahhs.

3. A sound made to imitate a ghost.
4. An expression of affection.
5. An expression of pain.

ooh (plural oohs)

1. An exclamation of ooh.

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

1. To exclaim ooh.

• oh
• ooh la la

• Hoo, hoo, oho

From Old Irish og, from Proto-Celtic *āuyom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm.

• IPA^(key): /au/, /uː/

ooh m (genitive singular oohey, plural oohyn)

1. egg

• ooh-chirkey