Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- interjection Used especially in response to sudden pain.
from The Century Dictionary.
- An interjection expressing surprise, pain, or other feeling, according to circumstances.
- An obsolete form of
you .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- interjection Same as
ouch .
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Examples
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Ow, ow, ow_! came from a couple of hundred yards away -- a hollow, diabolical kind of mocking laugh which sent a chill through the listeners.
Fire Island Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track George Manville Fenn 1870
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"[N] ow is a time for respect, reflection and remembrance," Rick Scott, chairman of Conservatives for Patients 'Rights, said in a statement.
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"[N] ow is a time for respect, reflection and remembrance," Rick Scott, chairman of Conservatives for Patients 'Rights, said in an August 26 statement announcing the temporary halt to health care ads.
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Keep it up! on August 28, 2008 at 8: 12 am | Reply Nilsa ow is it that in looking for the answers, I only find more questions?
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'ungry an' thinkin '' ow I'd worked all the years o 'my life an' now
Coronation Day 1903
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It's probably a good thing that you can't hear us, since I not only called your ow resident geek.
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Management analyzes operating cash fl ows by tracking free cash fl ow, which is calculated using net cash provided by operating activities, adding back after-tax cash used for restructuring activities and proceeds on the sale of fi xed assets, then subtracting capital expenditures, including those fi nanced with capital leases.
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this is so cool i love the new dora and ps: thay are sill going to show the new dora im ok with it and dora is is my grandmas name ow and im 14
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That happens because the sampling rate is kept high for long complex sounds like "ow", but cut down for simple consonants like "c".
Boing Boing 2008
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So the number of words you can create is in fact only limited by your patience - which worked the same way with the English language experiment I conducted during the run to list 100 marathon runners' words for pain using Anglo-Saxon modifiers like 'ow', and 'fucking-ow'.
Running the Polar Circle marathon Nick Mead 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word ow
See electric shock.
August 30, 2010