ooooooo.

interj.  the sound of vomiting; an expression of disappointment, as by a crowd reacting to a bad golf swing.

<I did a stroke and hit my toe and knocked the ball straight the opposite way.  Everybody went, “Ooooooo.”  It sounded like a big upchuck.  —Charlie Jones, Be The Ball: Golf Instruction Book For the Mind.>

n.  a beseeching expression.

<Come on, talk... ooooooo just tell us!  —Marvin Sutton, Santa & Marvin.>

n.  a command to a horse.

<The knight rode on the horse’s back and shouted: “Ooooooo!” and the horse neighed “Eiiiiiii!”  —Yoram Kaniuk, Adam Resurrected.>

n.  a gentle chastisement.

<“Ooooooo,” Rhonda teased.  “Big Stud gets cranks when he don’t get enough sleep.”  —Sharolett Koenig, Plight of the Children.>

n.  a groan of anger, as “issued out of... trembling lips, between gnashing, gritted teeth,” in Night Masks by R. A. Salvatore.


n.  a profound and drawn-out sigh, as in The Fallen Fortress by R. A. Salvatore.


n.  an imitation of the song of the humpback whale: a tremulous, bass groan, “ululating, elegaic, and otherworldly” (Brenda Peterson, Build Me an Ark: A Life With Animals.)

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