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▪ I. ooh, int.|uː|
Also oo, ooohh, etc.
[var. oh int. (n.)]
An exclamation of pain, surprise, wonder, disapprobation, etc. Hence as n.; also ooh-a(a)h, ooh and ah.
1916E. O'Neill Bound East for Cardiff in Provincetown Plays 1st Ser. 16 It hurts like hell—here... I guess my old pump's busted. Ooohh! 1919G. B. Shaw Great Catherine iv. 152 Agh!! (She has again applied her toe). Oh! Oo! Ibid. 154 Agh! Ooh! Stop! Oh Lord! 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake i. 149 Wee skillmustered shoul with his ooh, hoodoodoo! 1957R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy vi. 165 A world so complex that even those who are immersed in the business of tending its more important machines can only hope to understand a little of it, is daily reduced to a local and spuriously manageable ‘ooh-aah’, when the paper drops on the mat. 1964L. Deighton Funeral in Berlin xlviii. 301 There was a great ‘Ooohh’ and ‘Aaahh’ as the rocket burst. 1975Times 19 Feb. 14/1 The oohs and ahs of a 13-year-old schoolgirl contemplating the Osmonds. 1976New Musical Express 12 Feb. 24/2 All that mopery and Ooooh, it's so hard and lonely at the top. 1977F. Parrish Fire in Barley ii. 19 Ooh, she's a powerful snob.
▪ II. ooh, v.|uː|
Also oo.
[var. oh v.]
intr. To say ‘ooh’; also trans., to express with the sound ‘ooh’. Freq. in conjunction with ah v. Also in reduplicated form ooh-ooh.
1953Pohl & Kornbluth Space Merchants (1955) x. 102 Above me the respectable Costa Rican consumers oohed and ahed at the view from the prism windows. 1957‘P. Quentin’ Suspicious Circ. i. 7 Monique was oohing and aahing about ‘bone structure’ and ‘divinity of movement’. 1960[see ah v.]. 1961W. Sansom Last Hours of Sandra Lee 112 Mouths ooed and nummed noises of appreciation. 1963Times 8 May 5/6 Vociferous idiots who ‘ooh’ and ‘ah’ every time their favourites..set two feet off the stage. 1964W. Markfield To Early Grave (1965) iv. 75 Where do you come off with..that moaning and groaning, that ooh-ing and aah-ing? 1965J. B. Priestley Lost Empires iii. x. 273 People laughed and clapped and Oo'd and Ah'd. 1971A. Morice Death of Gay Dog xiii. 141 He..oohed and ahed his way through the column in quite the proper spirit. 1977New Musical Express 12 Feb. 14/5 Pumping their arms in unison, pirouetting and ooh-oohing like crazy, they're very slick, very infectious and warmly humorous. |