aaaa.

interj.  an expression of discomfort or fear.

<Something rustled near Christopher’s feet.  Aaaa!  A rat as big as a cat scampered across his boot.  —Gail Carson Levine, The Princess Tales, Volume 1.>

interj.  an expression of frustration.

<“Aaaa!”  I shook the dirt out of my hair, flapped it out of my ears.  —Richard Bach, Illusions.>

interj.  an expression of satisfaction.

<He reached over for the [liquor] bottle, unscrewed the cap, took the longest pull he could stand.  Aaaa, goddamn.  Won’t take long like that.  —Kaye Gibbons, A Virtuous Woman.>

interj.  an extended cry of pain; see also aaa, aiee, aiieee.

<I took out the ice-pick from the raincoat, gripped it in my hand and, with my eyes closed, dealt him a terrible blow on the head.  Trotsky gave a cry that I shall never forget.  It was a long ‘aaaa,’ endlessly long, and I think it still echoes in my brain.  —Dmitri Volkogonov, Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary.>

interj.  the sound of a realization; a-ha!

<Aaaa, knew you was scared.  —Henry Roth, Call It Sleep: A Novel.>

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