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interj.  an involuntary exclamation, as from a blow to the body.

<“Ooooo!”  The involuntary exclamation was forced from him, expelled by the force of the slingstone that had hit his side as he had twisted inside the dark passage.  —L. E. Modesitt Jr., The Forever Hero.>

interj.  the growl of a simmering rage.

<I look away from her, furious.  Ooooo, that little Miss Cuchifrita!  Wait till we land—I’m gonna get her back good in Hollywood!  —Deborah Gregory, Cheetah Girls Supa-Dupa Sparkle.>

n.  a chant from the Igbo Folk Epic from Sub-Saharan Africa, as discussed in Traditional Storytelling Today: An International Sourcebook by Margaret Read MacDonald.


n.  a chiding remark, as to someone exhibiting a lack of patience.

<Ooooo, testy.  —Terry Osborne, Sightlines: The View of a Valley Through the Voice of Depression.>

n.  a man’s romantic wooing, “like some dirty kind of animal,” as described in Barrios and Borderlands: Cultures of Latinos and Latinas in the United States by Denis Lynn Daly Heyck; see also eeeeee.


n.  a moaning sound preceding tears.

<I wanted to cry, but all that came out was an “ooooo” sound.  I “ooooo”-ed for days.  —Deborah Howe, Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery.>

n.  the sound of “a dog baying at the moon” (Shelby Foote, qtd. in Shelby Foote: A Writer’s Life by C. Stuart Chapman); see also ooo-oooo-ooooo.

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