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ooooooo.
n.  cute; see also ooooo.

<She has milky brown skin and huge brown eyes, the kind artistic people draw when they are doodling puppies and other small animals and they want to make you say, “Ooooooo.  For CUTE.”  —Jane Kurtz, Memories of Sun: Stories of Africa and America.>

n.  the whistling sound of the wind.

<[T]his was the only one that had the wind whistling around it, making an Ooooooo sound.  —Lyn Buchanan, The Seventh Sense: The Secrets of Remote Viewing as Told by a “Psychic Spy” for the U.S. Military.>

n.  the wolfish howl of a mental patient.

<Passing the mental hospital located in the town, they stopped to stare at the building, whereupon, in the quiet hush of twilight, they could hear the patients’ wolfish screams echoing from inside.  “Ooooooo,” one patient wailed.  The voices stayed with Sylvia.  —Paul Alexander, Rough Magic: A Biography of Sylvia Plath.>

ooooooo-eee.
interj.  a child’s squeal during a game of tag, as in Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto by Victoria Abbott Riccardi.


oooOOOooo.
interj.  a howling sound of excitement.

<I danced anxiously about on the sidelines saying ‘oooOOOooo’ as they struggled to deal with the creature.  —Katherine, My First Dungeon Experience.>


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