ooooooo.

interj.  a cry of desperation and humiliation, as in Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central High by Melba Pattillo Beals.


interj.  a cry of dismay.

<He remembered ... [h]ow the lariat, always kept on the front seat of the car coiled neatly, had opened across his father’s chest as if to spell out one last cry of dismay: ooooooo.  —Gretel Ehrlich, Heart Mountain.>

interj.  a cry of euphoria, as in Winnie-The-Pooh when Piglet flies into the air while inside Kanga’s pocket (A. A. Milne, The Complete Takes & Poems of Winnie-The-Pooh.>


interj.  a ghostly moan.

<They didn’t seem, well, ghostly.  No going “Ooooooo” or trying to scare anyone.  —Diane Duane, A Wizard Abroad: The Fourth Book in the Young Wizards Series.>

interj.  a gleeful exclamation, as upon witnessing the splendor of a rich person’s house.

<“Ooooooo, Mama, can you believe this?” Freda asked, as she glided through one room after another.  “Just don’t touch nothing, girl, this shit ain’t fake.”  —Terry McMillan, Mama.>

interj.  a moan of agony, anguish; the realization that something is “horribly, painfully wrong,” as in Dark Sapphire by Lisa Jackson.

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