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  • interjection Same as ow.
  • noun colloquial, North America, childish A painful, usually minor, injury.

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ow +‎ -ie

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  • A word commonly used by small children or infants to describe a wound. (Common in the mid-western United States)

    See also boo boo

    February 3, 2008