OOOoooo.

interj.  a moan of appreciation, as for a delicious drink.

<I’d go in there in the wintertime, take a cup, and get a cup full of that ice-cold kraut juice.  OOOoooo, it was good.  Lot better than this canned kraut that you buy today.  —Joseph Earl Dabney, Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread & Scuppernong Wine: The Folklore and Art of Southern Appalachian Cooking.>

ooooooo.

interj.  a moan of indecision, as in The Book of Sorrows by Walter Wangerin Jr.


interj.  a moan of pain, as from being shaken by one’s hair in Finnegan’s Week by Joseph Wambaugh; see also ooo, oooo, ooooo, oooooo.


interj.  a shuddering reaction to being sprayed with water, as in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape by Peter Hedges.


interj.  a warrior’s cry.

<When the heat makes the bamboo explode, the warriors stamp their feet, cry Ooooooo, and move to the battlefield in single file, prancing and singing along the way.  —Marvin Harris, Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture.>

interj.  an expression of marvel.

<Ooooooo, Nicky, that’s a strange one.  —Stephen Hunter, Point of Impact.>

interj.  the Russian expression for “whee!” as discussed in Hear! Here! by Michele Slung.

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