oooooo oooooo.

n.  the howl of “Death with the head of a dog,” as in the poem “Fin Wè Mò” by Danielle Legros Georges (Maroon); see also ooooo.

oooooo-eeeeee-oooooo-eeeeee-oooooo.

n.  the wavering tones of a piercing, unearthly howl, like the combined shrieks of a departed multitude.

<All of a sudden a noise pierced the air—a howl, a singing screech that started low and got ever higher and louder.  No living creature was behind that sound.  It reached a peak of height and loudness, and wavered there between two tones, rising and falling, oooooo-eeeeee-oooooo-eeeeee-oooooo, on and on and on, like the scream of the ghosts of every dead person ever buried in Orange County, or the final shrieks of all those killed by the bombs.  —Kim Stanley Robinson, The Wild Shore: Three Californias.>

ooooooo.

interj.  a collective reaction of approval, as from an audience discussed in Hello Darling, Are You Working? by Rupert Everett.

<A deep “Ooooooo” went through the crowd.  They approved.  —Anna L. Waldo, Sacajawea.>

interj.  a croon of gentle teasing.

<“Ooooooo,” she crooned, “looks like you’ve got an admirer.”  —Emma Kallok, Diary of Chickabiddy Baby.>

interj.  a cry of consternation.

<Ooooooo, doggone that show-off bird.  He fooled me again.  —Judith Martin, Dandelion, from the anthology Plays Children Love: Volume II.>

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