ooo.

n.  the sound of the letter o, “like an owl makes” as described in Ponca City Public Schools curriculum.

ooo eee.

n.  a wooing call.

<Ooo eee, ooo eee baby / Won’t you let me take you on a sea cruise?  —Glenn Frey, “Sea Cruise.”>

n.  part of a love spell chanted in the song “Witch Doctor” by David Seville.

ooo eee eee.

n.  the cries of a pregnant mother in labor.

<“Listen, I’ve got to deliver the baby breech.  Lay back and breathe.  You hear me?”  “Ooo...eee...eee,” she screamed, the people on the tv screaming with her.  —Janice Daugharty, Dark of the Moon.>

ooo ooo ooo.

n.  the call of the gibbon, as in the Goodies’ song “The Funky Gibbon.”


n.  the song of the “white winged dove,” as in the Stevie Nicks song “Edge of Seventeen.”

ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo.

n.  the song of the siren Lorelei of the Rocks, as recounted in the Chance Gardener song “Lorelei.”

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