ooooooooo EEEEEEEEEEE eeeeeeeeeeeeee.

(also Ooo EEEEEEE, ooooo EEEEEE.)  n.  the pained wailing of the elements.

<It was a deep, sorrowful whine coming from nowhere and everywhere, a noise above the crashing of the waves and the creaking of the ship and the roar of the black-smoking stacks, “Ooooooooo EEEEEEEEEEE eeeeeeeeeeeeee,” a universal noise as though the sea and the air were in pain, “Ooo EEEEEEE, ooooo EEEEEE—”  —Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny: A Novel.>

ooooooooo-ooooo.

n.  the endless spew of cruel language in Hell.

<For eternity we’ll sit across that big campfire of Hell and he’ll say cruel things to me and it will be his torture and mine.  Ooooooooo-ooooo...”  —Edward Lewis Wallant, The Tenants of Moonbloom.>

oooooooooo oooooooooooo oooooooooooooooo.

interj.  a whoop of “maximum derision,” as in the novel A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe.

oooooooooooo.

n.  the “lamenting note” of a “long-drawn-out howl” of someone both drunk and homesick, as in Psalm at Journey’s End: A Novel by Erik Fosnes Hansen; see also ooooooooouuuuuu.

ooooooooouuuuuu.

n.  the pained bellow of someone both drunk and homesick, as in Psalm at Journey’s End: A Novel by Erik Fosnes Hansen; see also oooooooooooo.

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