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  • interjection Alternative form of ooh.

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Examples

  • Not like these, which are "ooooh" - inducing nonetheless.

    Monday hooks_and_books 2009

  • VAIL - OK, now that everyone is done saying "ooooh, that is so gross" let's get ready for a serious discussion about anal gland disease in Vail Valley pets.

    Vail Daily - Top Stories Stephen Sheldon Vail, CO Colorado 2009

  • It makes beautiful women go "ooooh" when they're hugging you, and lean in and nuzzle your neck and make happy sounds.

    End-of-Summer Party quick notes feste_sylvain 2009

  • The perennially wide-eyed talk show host whose supposed refrain of "ooooh" to his guests was widely parodied back in the day as proof of his insubstantiality?

    David Bender: Joie de Merv 2008

  • If we pronounce the sound /u/ (as in "ooooh"), we should notice that we're rounding our lips (i.e. labialization).

    The Great Pre-IE Centralization 2007

  • Runners up so far "ooooh"s, if not "wow"s: The Salon, The Professor's Daughter, if that counts - the translation is new, anyway, Dr 13 and "You're A Good Man, John Stewart Mill" in Action Philosophers.

    YAFQ: This Year's "Wow" Comic? David S. Carter 2007

  • Rex Libris looks like an "ooooh" too, but I haven't read it all yet.

    YAFQ: This Year's "Wow" Comic? David S. Carter 2007

  • If we pronounce the sound /u/ (as in "ooooh"), we should notice that we're rounding our lips (i.e. labialization).

    Archive 2007-12-01 2007

  • Hundreds at a time stretched down Broadway and around the corner waiting for their chance to "ooooh" and "aaahh" at the famous Macy's Christmas window displays.

    As American as Shopping and Torture: Street Theater on International Human Rights Day 2006

  • When we opened it from its delightful lacy packaging, we both went "ooooh"....

    club little house treasures 2006

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