Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- interjection Used to express pleasure, satisfaction, surprise, or great joy.
- intransitive verb To exclaim in pleasure, satisfaction, surprise, or great joy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- interjection Indication of
amazement orsurprise orenthusiasm . - interjection Indication of
joyful pleasure . - interjection Indication of sympathy.
- interjection Indication of mouth being opened wide.
- interjection To express understanding.
- noun Expression of
amazement orsurprise orenthusiasm . - noun Expression of joy and/or pleasure.
- noun The exclamation aah.
- verb To say or exclaim aah.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb express admiration and pleasure by uttering `ooh' or `aah'
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Examples
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While his hands are (or were) squeaky clean, he's just dragged them across a splattered palette of germs collected from every patient he's seen today, yesterday, or maybe even last week, and now - open up and say "aah" - those hands are headed straight for your unguarded mouth.
Skeptic.com webmaster 2010
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"aah" -- doesn't she sound like the violins in the scary music they use in
Largehearted Boy 2009
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I made the "aah" sound and told him he would have to endure a reminiscence.
TV inspired Nostalgia ealdthryth 2002
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Snowed in at the hotel and unable to move my car, I did try to study the lists: 128 legal two-letter words, 1,293 threeletters: 'aah', 'aal' 'aas' 'aba', 'abb', 'abo', 'abs', 'aby',
Home | Mail Online 2010
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Another poster known as "aah" claimed he had been told he would have his voucher in 20 working days.
Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk 2010
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Another poster known as "aah" claimed he had been told he would have his voucher in 20 working days.
Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed 2010
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Another poster known as "aah" claimed he had been told he would have his voucher in 20 working days.
Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed 2010
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But Labour's focus on abolishing child poverty is not, as he (deliberately) patronisingly claims, for the "aah" factor.
Labourhome 2009
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When I first saw that Aa, a group from Brooklyn, was playing at FNR, I pronounced the band's name like "aah" in my head.
TheDartmouth.com | America's Oldest College Newspaper. Founded 1799. 2009
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Rule: If someone due to pain or difficulty said 'aah' 'ooh' 'oof' tuf or cried out loudly and a sound was heard then the Namaz will break.
Bloggers.Pakistan 2008
vanishedone commented on the word aah
'I am agog!
I am aghast!
Is Marius in love at last?
I've never heard him ooh and aah'
- Les Miserables (the musical)
November 30, 2007