ooo ooo oooo.

n.  a belly laugh, as in Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities by Philip DeVol.

ooo oooo oooo.

interj.  a sob of shock.

<Minnie sat surveying me malevolently through a knot hole and plaintively crying “Ooo... Oooo... Oooo,” as if shocked to the core by my perfidy.  —Gerald Durrell, A Zoo in My Luggage.>

ooo-eee.

interj.  an exclamation of wonder, as in The Brave by Robert Lipsyte; see also oooo-eee, oooo-eeee, ooooo-eeeee.

<She gobbled her buttered popcorn and stared at the screen, where a stripper was biting off a snake’s head.  “Ooo-eee,” somebody said in the darkness.  —Roger Ebert, I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie.>

interj.  an expression of feeling dizzy or overwhelmed.

<Niels, old friend, I’m suddenly so dizzy... Ooo-eee!  That pain in the back of my head just went off the scale!  I feel like I can’t hold on.  —Robert Hutchinson, The Old Man of the Mountain.>

interj.  an expression of praise; a compliment.

<Ooo-eee, bright girl!  —Dana Cameron, A Fugitive Truth: An Emma Fielding Mystery.>

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