ohint.n.¹

Brit.

/əʊ/, U.S.

/oʊ/

Forms: 1500s ohes (plural), 1500s– oh, 1700s 1900s– ohh. Forms with h occurring three or more times are also occasionally attested.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: O int.

Etymology: Variant of O int., probably intended to express a longer or stronger sound. Compare Middle French, French oh! (1559).In early use oh was interchangeable with o in all contexts. The latter is now, however, almost entirely restricted to vocative uses (see O int. 1) and to imperative, optative, or exclamatory phrases (see O int. 2). Historically, oh occurs especially standing alone and in exclamations more detached from what follows, but in the 17th and 18th centuries it often occurs also in imperative, optative, or exclamatory phrases, and it has again become common in these uses since the early 20th cent. Compare also oh, oh int.

A. int.

1. Preceding a noun used vocatively; = O int. 1.

ΚΠ

?a1525 (?a1475) Play Sacrament l. 778 in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 82 Oh thow my Lord God and Sauyowr, osanna!

?1552 V. Leigh Pleasaunt Playne & Pythye Pathewaye sig. B.iiij Oh youth, and lustye yeares, howe ar yee vanyshed awaye.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. ii. 12 Oh Anthony, oh thou Arabian Bird!

1704 R. Steele Lying Lover v. 51 Oh sleep! thou sweetest Gift of Heav'n to Man.

1752 D. Garrick in S. Foote Taste Prol. Farewell to Arts—they're going, going, going; The fatal Hammer's in your Hand, oh Town!

1853 New Monthly Mag. 99 89 If, oh worshipful cadi, you desired to rob, you could not have chosen a more favourable time than this.

1958 E. E. Smith Skylark of Space (rev. ed.) xviii. 121 Greetings, oh guests from Tellus! I feel more like myself, now that I am again in my trappings and have my weapons at my side.

2001 In at Deep End: Cherwell Freshers' Guide 2001 20/2 Take this into consideration, oh downy-cheeked young Fresher.

a. At the beginning of a clause. Expressing (according to intonation) surprise, frustration, discomfort, longing, disappointment, sorrow, relief, etc. Frequently preceding another interjection.oh, boy, oh, dear, oh God, oh man!, oh me!, oh my!, etc.: see the second element. oh well: see well adv. 20b(b).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > passion > expression of strong feeling [interjection]

oh God1340

oh1533

good Godc1595

arrah1703

my God1812

oh my days1841

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > expressions of disapproval [interjection]

fie1297

avoyc1300

spyc1315

comec1450

tuta1529

oh1533

hum1598

rufty-tufty1606

aroint thee!1608

hoot1681

boo1778

hoots1824

boo hoo1825

now, now1847

aw1852

tch1898

tsk1947

the mind > emotion > fear > quality of terror or horror > exclamation of terror or horror [interjection]

oh1533

horror1879

crivens1917

1533 T. More Let. Impugnynge J. Fryth sig. Hiv^v Oh the altytude of the rychesse of the wysdome & the connynge of god.

1539 Bible (Great) Psalms lxix. f. xiii^v/1 Oh let me be delyuered from them that hate me, and out of the depe waters.

1555 Tract in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. xliv. 124 Oh! what a heinous work is this in the sight of God.

a1642 J. Suckling Last Remains (1659) 19 Oh so fickle, oh so vain, oh so false, so false is she!

1680 E. Hickeringill Curse ye Meroz 16 For the Crown to Vaile and Lowre to the Stool of Repentance, Oh abominable and Vile!

1707 I. Watts There is a Land (hymn) v Oh! could we make our doubts remove.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 146. ⁋3 Oh how glorious is the old Age of that great Man.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 52 And Oh! let me put another case, I said.

1889 Daily News 14 May 3/3 Ministerial cries of ‘Oh,’ and cheers from the Irish members.

1895 W. Raymond Tryphena 1 Oh, ay! Mrs. Joshua Pettigrew she would show the room, right enough.

1916 J. Buchan Greenmantle xxii. 305 Oh, god be thanked, it's our friends!

2000 S. King On Writing 186 This did not..keep her from yelling ‘Oh shit!’ if she burned the roast.

b. Within a clause, intensifying a following phrase, usually one expressing degree or quantity.With oh so preceding an adjective or adverb, cf. oh-so at Phrases.why, oh why..?: see why adv., int., and n. Phrases 7.

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1602 T. Dekker Blurt Master-Constable sig. C3 It makes you haue oh a most in-conie bodie.

1691 T. Shadwell Scowrers ii. i. 12 Oh had you seen him scowre as I did, oh so delicately, so like a Gentleman!

1823 T. Doubleday Ital. Wife i. ii. 13 Within there stood, retiringly, Oh! such a shape, with such soft sunny locks.

1843 E. A. Poe Tell-tale Heart in Pioneer Jan. 29/2 Every night about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it—oh so gently!

1874 A. Trollope Phineas Redux II. xix. 154 Nothing was more certain than that he would have been Prime Minister,—oh, very soon.

1908 H. James Portrait of Lady (rev. ed.) II. xxxvii. 105 She looked high and splendid..and yet oh so radiantly gentle!

1920 S. Lewis Main St. iv. 45 I bought oh! a vociferous skirt which revealed my perfectly nice ankles to the Presbyterian glare of all the Ioway schoolma'ams.

1944 D. Thomas Let. c21 Sept. (1987) 524 A short stay only but oh, how nice.

1980 Times 5 Dec. 1390/1 These are..a series of worthy, yes, but oh how meanly parochial dullsvilles.

c. Expressing brief hesitation for recall, decision, or apt phrasing.

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1898 Cosmopolitan Aug. 401/1 I used to have sharp spasms of it—oh, ages ago—whenever a shopwoman showed me something and said, ‘This is very much worn just now’.

1926 People's Home Jrnl. Feb. 37/2 They had a bad quarrel—oh, twenty-odd years ago, and Tom flung off and left this part of the country for good.

1937 W. Lewis Blasting & Bombardiering (1967) iv. v. 227 I guess I'll have—oh—a rump-steak.

1993 Guardian (Nexis) 28 July 8 He had joined me in an ouzeri where I had been sitting alone by myself for oh, at least 30 seconds.

2001 Tin House Mag. Summer 80 In Daniel's case, for, oh, forty-five minutes, give or take a few.

3. As a discourse marker, guiding the flow of dialogue or discussion.

a. Introducing an expression of recollection or rediscovery of something.

ΚΠ

a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. iiii. sig. F.vii But see nowe what age is, loe, I haue beene so longe in my tale, that I haue almoste forgotten for what purpose I tolde it. Oh, now I remember me.

1596 J. Harington Apol. sig. Nvij^v Oh I remember him, he had a poore neighbour once dwelt at Holmeby, that made foure verses if I haue not forgot them.

1792 T. Holcroft Anna St. Ives IV. lxi. 7 What was I going to say?—My brain is as murky as the clouds under which I am writing—Oh!—I recollect.

1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxi. 205 And you—well, let me see—oh, I've got it—you can do Hamlet's soliloquy.

1921 Sat. Evening Post 21 May 5/2 Oh, that reminds me, Woody. I wanted to—er—consult you a little about a sort of cousin of mine.

1990 W. Johnston Divine Ryans (1991) xvi. 212 ‘Oh,’ said Uncle Reginald. ‘I almost forgot. You'll need three pucks that haven't touched the ground.’

2008 S. C. Cusack Code 3 ii. iii. 170 Where did I put that thing? It's been buried in my purse all day! Now I can't find it! Oh! Here it is!

b. Introducing an expression dismissive of or disagreeing with an idea, a statement just made, etc.See also oh, sure at sure int. 2.

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1535 Bible (Coverdale) Acts x. B And there came a voyce vnto him: Ryse Peter, slaye, & eate. But Peter sayde: Oh no, LORDE, for I neuer ate eny commen or vncleane thinge.

1660 Bloody Bed-roll (single sheet) Old Oliver's gon to the dogs, Oh! No I do mistake, He's gone in a Wherry Over the Ferry, Is cal'd the Stygian Lake.

1759 J. Townley High Life below Stairs ii. 46 Duke. Pox take it, face it out. Sir Harry. Oh no; these West-Indians are very fiery.

1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 Feb. 6/2 The judge: Was this an amateur company?—Yes; they took money out of it.—The judge: Oh, then, I don't call that amateur.

1909 M. Moore Let. 4 Feb. (1997) 59 I generally feel complacent about is rocks and think, ‘oh anybody can do that, with a palette knife and an indifferent mixture of dirty paint’.

1962 L. Bruce Nothing like Blood (1985) ix. 81 ‘You know just what I mean. It's dangerous.’ Helena laughed. ‘Oh don't be absurd. What danger can there be for me?’

2010 Independent 10 Apr. (Mag.) 54 Well, not high Tory old posh—oh no, that would involve a certain amount of breeding—but ‘new posh’, whatever that is.

c. Introducing an expression indicating reception of information or new understanding of the situation.

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1578 T. Garter Commody of Susanna sig. E.iij Oh now thou lyest thou wicked man, vnto thy head I speake, And looke that God his vengeance will with shame vpon thee wreake.

1757 S. Foote Author ii. 38 Oh, now I begin to understand..; ecod, I begin to smoke.

1847 Columbian Mag. Apr. 181/2 ‘Brief and beautiful,’ rhapsodied the lawyer. ‘Who can she be?’ ‘How should I know,’ responded the good-humored man, glancing at the sheet. ‘Oh, you have a valentine there, have you?’

1916 H. H. Peerless Diary 6 July in Brief Jolly Change (2003) 213 Telephone Day's. ‘Hullo—oh, you have found the trouble—the armature is burnt out—you will have to send it away to be rewound.’

1920 Sat. Evening Post 1 May 23/1 ‘Well, everything did happen sort of sudden. You see, I got a raise to eighteen dollars a week.’ ‘Oh, that's wonderful, Jimmy!’

1964 M. Stewart This Rough Magic (1965) xv. 181 Antiquities? oh, you mean statues, like the ones on the Esplanade, the fine English ones.

2012 L. Winkler Between Cartwheels 236 ‘Where are you going this time, Simon?’ I asked. ‘England.’ He said. ‘We are in England.’ I told him. ‘Oh.’ He said.

d. Introducing an expression giving information, conceding a point, signifying compliance, etc.

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1648 W. Bray Representation to Nation 2 If a Generall or a Generall Officer can or will preferre a man, oh then you must be quiet, and act in your order.

1756 H. Walpole Let. 20 Apr. (1941) IX. 185 Lady Coventry..said in a very vulgar accent, if she drank any more, she should be muckibus.—‘Lord!’ said Lady Mary Coke, ‘what is that?’—‘Oh! it is Irish for sentimental.’

1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. III. 195 ‘How's your throat, child?’.. ‘Oh, quite well, Pa,..it was a bit of the rind of the cheese that stuck.’

1861 E. D. Cook Paul Foster's Daughter II. 56 What does he do now? Oh, he hangs on at the Nonpareil.

1880 W. S. Gilbert Pirates of Penzance i. 6 Fred. What a terrible thing it would be if I were to marry this innocent person, and then find out that she is, on the whole, plain! King. Oh, Ruth is very well—very well indeed.

1883 Harper's Mag. Nov. 871/1 ‘I will show the way.’..‘Oh, then go ahead.’

1990 Poetry Rev. Spring 35/2 The husband? Oh, he went wrong, or died, Or something.

2001 Muzik Jan. 90/2 What's on it? Oh, all the classics.

4. Added after the rhyme word at the end of a line in a ballad, song, etc., for metrical reasons; = O int. 3. Now rare and humorous.

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1786 in A. Smith Musical Misc. liii. 101 Cold is the blast upon my pale cheek, But colder your love unto me, Oh.

1867 W. S. Gilbert La Vivandiere i. 9 Respect my accents moany, oh.

1910 H. E. P. Spofford Fairy Changeling 60 Little Jo: She's my airy, fairy, oh, She's my darling, I'm her Jo.

2000 M. Coward Best of ‘Round The Horne’ 1st Ser. Programme 14. 55/2 Well now, dang me down a doodle oh, in the past week I've been a'rambling and a'roving.

B. n.¹

An utterance or exclamation of ‘oh’.Frequently preceding another interjection, together forming a noun phrase.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or exclamation > [noun] > other specific cries or exclamations

O?c1225

heyc1400

hoc1405

whoopc1450

oha1535

ooh1602

whowb1602

phew1613

hogmanay1692

ah1712

yo-hope1724

whew1751

whoo1763

yah1812

yo-heave-ho1813

yoicks1817

yo-he-ho1827

yo1830

boo1833

yoick1854

hot-cha-cha1932

ooh-la-la1952

ooh-ah1957

eina1971

eish2005

a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. x. sig. O.viii He fette a long sighe with an Oh from y^e bottome of hys breste.

1597 T. Middleton Wisdome of Solomon Paraphr. xi. sig. O^v God sent sad-ohes, for shadowes of lament.

1646 R. Crashaw Sospetto d'Herode xxv, in Steps to Temple 59 A desperate, Oh mee, drew from his deepe brest.

1712 Spectator No. 400. ⁋4 An Interjection, an Ah, or an Oh, at some little Hazard in moving or making a Step.

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 33 Phoebe grew more composed, after two or three sighs, and heart-fetch'd Oh's! and giving me a kiss,..she replaced the bed-cloaths over us.

1794 S. Rowson Charlotte (new ed.) II. xviii. 138 I shall never have patience to get through these volumes, there are so many ahs! and ohs! so much fainting, tears, and distress.

1820 W. Tooke tr. Lucian Lucian of Samosata I. l. 386 Never-ending ohs and ahs.

1852 C. Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) I. 384 Oh! the professions; oh! the gold; and oh! the French—these three oh's all rank as dreadful bugbears.

1868 L. M. Alcott Little Women I. ii. 37 As the plates went round..the ice began to melt out of sight with ohs! and ahs! of satisfaction.

1910 J. London Sel. Stories §10 936 When Danny stripped, there was ohs! and ahs! of delight.

1960 J. W. Bellah Sergeant Rutledge xvii. 84 There will be no female ‘ohs’ and ‘ahs’, or pretty little chitterings of outraged virtue and modesty if they happen to offended by any testimony that may transpire.

1983 Listener 6 Jan. 21/3 Pop lyrics writers throw in an ‘oh yeah’ or a ‘baby’ wherever the syllable-count needs padding out.

Phrases

oh-so: preceding an adjective or adverb with ironical or sarcastic connotations.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > very

tooc888

swith971

wellOE

fullOE

rightc1175

muchc1225

wellac1275

gainlya1375

endlyc1440

hard?1440

very1448

odda1500

great1535

jolly1549

fellc1600

veryvery1649

gooda1655

vastly1664

strange1667

bloody1676

ever so1686

heartily1727

real1771

precious1775

quarely1805

murry1818

très1819

freely1820

powerfula1822

gurt1824

almighty1830

heap1832

all-fired1833

gradely1850

real1856

bonny1857

heavens1858

veddy1859

canny1867

some1867

oh-so1881

storming1883

spanking1886

socking1896

hefty1898

velly1898

fair dinkum1904

plurry1907

Pygmalion1914

dinkum1915

beaucoup1918

dirty1920

molto1923

snorting1924

honking1929

hellishing1931

thumpingly1948

way1965

mega1966

mondo1968

seriously1970

totally1972

mucho1978

stonking1990

1881 W. S. Gilbert Patience ii. 31 Col. (apologetically). I'm afraid we're not quite right. Ang. Not supremely, perhaps, but, oh so all-but! Oh, Saphir, are they not quite too all-but?

1922 Sketch 29 Mar. 513/3 A big grey felt hat, which looked, oh, so Spanish!

1952 M. Laski Village ii. 33 Her sweet but, oh, so uninteresting face.

1960 J. Betjeman Summoned by Bells vii. 66 That mawkish and oh-so-melodious book Holds one great truth.

1972 J. Gores Dead Skip xiv. 97 The mailboxes were set against the oh-so-rustic redwood slat fence.

2002 N.Y. Times Mag. 6 Oct. 22/2 To them the number 88 is an oh-so-secret coded symbol for ‘heil Hitler’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	oh
释义	ohn.² Brit. /əʊ/, U.S. /oʊ/ Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: O n.³ Etymology: Variant of O n.³, probably after the spelling of oh int. The Arabic zero, 0; nought. Usually in combination with other numerals. Cf. O n.³ 1. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [noun] > zero > nought or character zero cipher1399 nullity1587 nullo1598 zero1604 null1648 naught1649 noughta1660 ought1821 aught1822 oh1908 1908 Railroad Telegrapher 25 2106/1 Wishing one and all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, hoping to see everyone out in nineteen oh nine. 1948 A. Baron From City, from Plough 9 At oh-eight-thirty-hours..the undermentioned..will parade. a1961 E. Hemingway Garden of Eden (1987) iii. xxiv. 199 His eye was the most alive thing David had ever seen. ‘Shoot him in the ear hole with the three oh three,’ his father said. 1998 New Yorker 16 Nov. 57/2 The heart of the order, Paul O'Neill and Bernie Williams, had gone a collective oh for nine in this game. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). ohv. Brit. /əʊ/, U.S. /oʊ/ Forms: 1800s o, 1800s– oh. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: o v.¹ Etymology: Variant of o v.¹, after oh int. Compare earlier oh-ing n., and later ooh v. 1. intransitive. To say or exclaim ‘oh’. Usually in collocation with ah v. Cf. ooh v. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or exclamation > cry or exclaim [verb (intransitive)] > specific exclamations ho1377 heave hoa1400 howc1450 whew1765 oh-oh1833 oh1837 yo-heave-ho1857 phew1858 ahem1876 oh-my1893 hooch1896 yah1904 ooh1930 ooh-la-la1950 ooh-ooh1960 1837 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 241 All of them talking, laughing, lounging, coughing, o-ing, questioning, or groaning. a1870 C. Dickens Is she his Wife? (1877) i. 27 What the deuce is she Oh-ing at! 1897 ‘M. Twain’ Following Equator 112 We..went oh-ing and ah-ing in admiration. 1934 ‘R. West’ Mod. Rake's Progress 113 These visitors from the next civilisation..will walk about oh-ing and ah-ing. 1950 R. Bradbury Martian Chron. 39 The audience ohed and ahed as the captain talked. 1974 J. D. MacDonald Dreadful Lemon Sky (1975) vii. 109 Joanna was loudly enthusiastic... She was trotting around, oh-ing and ah-ing. 2001 Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 22 Nov. (Living section) e19 The small fry squatted on..the street,..oh-ing in awe as their favorite storybook characters came to life along the rhythmic route. 2. transitive. To say ‘oh’ to. Also with direct speech as object. ΚΠ 1889 V. Dabney Gold that did not Glitter xl. 252 ‘Oh-oh-oh, Bess!’ ohed all the bride-maids with conviction. 1902 N.E.D. Oh, to greet with ‘Oh?’. 1964 tr. S. Heym Lenz Papers i. 17 They followed him all over the place and eyed him and ohed him and ahed him. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). ohint.n.¹ Brit. /əʊ/, U.S. /oʊ/ Forms: 1500s ohes (plural), 1500s– oh, 1700s 1900s– ohh. Forms with h occurring three or more times are also occasionally attested. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: O int. Etymology: Variant of O int., probably intended to express a longer or stronger sound. Compare Middle French, French oh! (1559).In early use oh was interchangeable with o in all contexts. The latter is now, however, almost entirely restricted to vocative uses (see O int. 1) and to imperative, optative, or exclamatory phrases (see O int. 2). Historically, oh occurs especially standing alone and in exclamations more detached from what follows, but in the 17th and 18th centuries it often occurs also in imperative, optative, or exclamatory phrases, and it has again become common in these uses since the early 20th cent. Compare also oh, oh int. A. int. 1. Preceding a noun used vocatively; = O int. 1. ΚΠ ?a1525 (?a1475) Play Sacrament l. 778 in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 82 Oh thow my Lord God and Sauyowr, osanna! ?1552 V. Leigh Pleasaunt Playne & Pythye Pathewaye sig. B.iiij Oh youth, and lustye yeares, howe ar yee vanyshed awaye. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. ii. 12 Oh Anthony, oh thou Arabian Bird! 1704 R. Steele Lying Lover v. 51 Oh sleep! thou sweetest Gift of Heav'n to Man. 1752 D. Garrick in S. Foote Taste Prol. Farewell to Arts—they're going, going, going; The fatal Hammer's in your Hand, oh Town! 1853 New Monthly Mag. 99 89 If, oh worshipful cadi, you desired to rob, you could not have chosen a more favourable time than this. 1958 E. E. Smith Skylark of Space (rev. ed.) xviii. 121 Greetings, oh guests from Tellus! I feel more like myself, now that I am again in my trappings and have my weapons at my side. 2001 In at Deep End: Cherwell Freshers' Guide 2001 20/2 Take this into consideration, oh downy-cheeked young Fresher. 2. a. At the beginning of a clause. Expressing (according to intonation) surprise, frustration, discomfort, longing, disappointment, sorrow, relief, etc. Frequently preceding another interjection.oh, boy, oh, dear, oh God, oh man!, oh me!, oh my!, etc.: see the second element. oh well: see well adv. 20b(b). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > passion > expression of strong feeling [interjection] oh God1340 oh1533 good Godc1595 arrah1703 my God1812 oh my days1841 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > expressions of disapproval [interjection] fie1297 avoyc1300 spyc1315 comec1450 tuta1529 oh1533 hum1598 rufty-tufty1606 aroint thee!1608 hoot1681 boo1778 hoots1824 boo hoo1825 now, now1847 aw1852 tch1898 tsk1947 the mind > emotion > fear > quality of terror or horror > exclamation of terror or horror [interjection] oh1533 horror1879 crivens1917 1533 T. More Let. Impugnynge J. Fryth sig. Hiv^v Oh the altytude of the rychesse of the wysdome & the connynge of god. 1539 Bible (Great) Psalms lxix. f. xiii^v/1 Oh let me be delyuered from them that hate me, and out of the depe waters. 1555 Tract in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. xliv. 124 Oh! what a heinous work is this in the sight of God. a1642 J. Suckling Last Remains (1659) 19 Oh so fickle, oh so vain, oh so false, so false is she! 1680 E. Hickeringill Curse ye Meroz 16 For the Crown to Vaile and Lowre to the Stool of Repentance, Oh abominable and Vile! 1707 I. Watts There is a Land (hymn) v Oh! could we make our doubts remove. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 146. ⁋3 Oh how glorious is the old Age of that great Man. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 52 And Oh! let me put another case, I said. 1889 Daily News 14 May 3/3 Ministerial cries of ‘Oh,’ and cheers from the Irish members. 1895 W. Raymond Tryphena 1 Oh, ay! Mrs. Joshua Pettigrew she would show the room, right enough. 1916 J. Buchan Greenmantle xxii. 305 Oh, god be thanked, it's our friends! 2000 S. King On Writing 186 This did not..keep her from yelling ‘Oh shit!’ if she burned the roast. b. Within a clause, intensifying a following phrase, usually one expressing degree or quantity.With oh so preceding an adjective or adverb, cf. oh-so at Phrases.why, oh why..?: see why adv., int., and n. Phrases 7. ΚΠ 1602 T. Dekker Blurt Master-Constable sig. C3 It makes you haue oh a most in-conie bodie. 1691 T. Shadwell Scowrers ii. i. 12 Oh had you seen him scowre as I did, oh so delicately, so like a Gentleman! 1823 T. Doubleday Ital. Wife i. ii. 13 Within there stood, retiringly, Oh! such a shape, with such soft sunny locks. 1843 E. A. Poe Tell-tale Heart in Pioneer Jan. 29/2 Every night about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it—oh so gently! 1874 A. Trollope Phineas Redux II. xix. 154 Nothing was more certain than that he would have been Prime Minister,—oh, very soon. 1908 H. James Portrait of Lady (rev. ed.) II. xxxvii. 105 She looked high and splendid..and yet oh so radiantly gentle! 1920 S. Lewis Main St. iv. 45 I bought oh! a vociferous skirt which revealed my perfectly nice ankles to the Presbyterian glare of all the Ioway schoolma'ams. 1944 D. Thomas Let. c21 Sept. (1987) 524 A short stay only but oh, how nice. 1980 Times 5 Dec. 1390/1 These are..a series of worthy, yes, but oh how meanly parochial dullsvilles. c. Expressing brief hesitation for recall, decision, or apt phrasing. ΚΠ 1898 Cosmopolitan Aug. 401/1 I used to have sharp spasms of it—oh, ages ago—whenever a shopwoman showed me something and said, ‘This is very much worn just now’. 1926 People's Home Jrnl. Feb. 37/2 They had a bad quarrel—oh, twenty-odd years ago, and Tom flung off and left this part of the country for good. 1937 W. Lewis Blasting & Bombardiering (1967) iv. v. 227 I guess I'll have—oh—a rump-steak. 1993 Guardian (Nexis) 28 July 8 He had joined me in an ouzeri where I had been sitting alone by myself for oh, at least 30 seconds. 2001 Tin House Mag. Summer 80 In Daniel's case, for, oh, forty-five minutes, give or take a few. 3. As a discourse marker, guiding the flow of dialogue or discussion. a. Introducing an expression of recollection or rediscovery of something. ΚΠ a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. iiii. sig. F.vii But see nowe what age is, loe, I haue beene so longe in my tale, that I haue almoste forgotten for what purpose I tolde it. Oh, now I remember me. 1596 J. Harington Apol. sig. Nvij^v Oh I remember him, he had a poore neighbour once dwelt at Holmeby, that made foure verses if I haue not forgot them. 1792 T. Holcroft Anna St. Ives IV. lxi. 7 What was I going to say?—My brain is as murky as the clouds under which I am writing—Oh!—I recollect. 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxi. 205 And you—well, let me see—oh, I've got it—you can do Hamlet's soliloquy. 1921 Sat. Evening Post 21 May 5/2 Oh, that reminds me, Woody. I wanted to—er—consult you a little about a sort of cousin of mine. 1990 W. Johnston Divine Ryans (1991) xvi. 212 ‘Oh,’ said Uncle Reginald. ‘I almost forgot. You'll need three pucks that haven't touched the ground.’ 2008 S. C. Cusack Code 3 ii. iii. 170 Where did I put that thing? It's been buried in my purse all day! Now I can't find it! Oh! Here it is! b. Introducing an expression dismissive of or disagreeing with an idea, a statement just made, etc.See also oh, sure at sure int. 2. ΚΠ 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Acts x. B And there came a voyce vnto him: Ryse Peter, slaye, & eate. But Peter sayde: Oh no, LORDE, for I neuer ate eny commen or vncleane thinge. 1660 Bloody Bed-roll (single sheet) Old Oliver's gon to the dogs, Oh! No I do mistake, He's gone in a Wherry Over the Ferry, Is cal'd the Stygian Lake. 1759 J. Townley High Life below Stairs ii. 46 Duke. Pox take it, face it out. Sir Harry. Oh no; these West-Indians are very fiery. 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 27 Feb. 6/2 The judge: Was this an amateur company?—Yes; they took money out of it.—The judge: Oh, then, I don't call that amateur. 1909 M. Moore Let. 4 Feb. (1997) 59 I generally feel complacent about is rocks and think, ‘oh anybody can do that, with a palette knife and an indifferent mixture of dirty paint’. 1962 L. Bruce Nothing like Blood (1985) ix. 81 ‘You know just what I mean. It's dangerous.’ Helena laughed. ‘Oh don't be absurd. What danger can there be for me?’ 2010 Independent 10 Apr. (Mag.) 54 Well, not high Tory old posh—oh no, that would involve a certain amount of breeding—but ‘new posh’, whatever that is. c. Introducing an expression indicating reception of information or new understanding of the situation. ΚΠ 1578 T. Garter Commody of Susanna sig. E.iij Oh now thou lyest thou wicked man, vnto thy head I speake, And looke that God his vengeance will with shame vpon thee wreake. 1757 S. Foote Author ii. 38 Oh, now I begin to understand..; ecod, I begin to smoke. 1847 Columbian Mag. Apr. 181/2 ‘Brief and beautiful,’ rhapsodied the lawyer. ‘Who can she be?’ ‘How should I know,’ responded the good-humored man, glancing at the sheet. ‘Oh, you have a valentine there, have you?’ 1916 H. H. Peerless Diary 6 July in Brief Jolly Change (2003) 213 Telephone Day's. ‘Hullo—oh, you have found the trouble—the armature is burnt out—you will have to send it away to be rewound.’ 1920 Sat. Evening Post 1 May 23/1 ‘Well, everything did happen sort of sudden. You see, I got a raise to eighteen dollars a week.’ ‘Oh, that's wonderful, Jimmy!’ 1964 M. Stewart This Rough Magic (1965) xv. 181 Antiquities? oh, you mean statues, like the ones on the Esplanade, the fine English ones. 2012 L. Winkler Between Cartwheels 236 ‘Where are you going this time, Simon?’ I asked. ‘England.’ He said. ‘We are in England.’ I told him. ‘Oh.’ He said. d. Introducing an expression giving information, conceding a point, signifying compliance, etc. ΚΠ 1648 W. Bray Representation to Nation 2 If a Generall or a Generall Officer can or will preferre a man, oh then you must be quiet, and act in your order. 1756 H. Walpole Let. 20 Apr. (1941) IX. 185 Lady Coventry..said in a very vulgar accent, if she drank any more, she should be muckibus.—‘Lord!’ said Lady Mary Coke, ‘what is that?’—‘Oh! it is Irish for sentimental.’ 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. III. 195 ‘How's your throat, child?’.. ‘Oh, quite well, Pa,..it was a bit of the rind of the cheese that stuck.’ 1861 E. D. Cook Paul Foster's Daughter II. 56 What does he do now? Oh, he hangs on at the Nonpareil. 1880 W. S. Gilbert Pirates of Penzance i. 6 Fred. What a terrible thing it would be if I were to marry this innocent person, and then find out that she is, on the whole, plain! King. Oh, Ruth is very well—very well indeed. 1883 Harper's Mag. Nov. 871/1 ‘I will show the way.’..‘Oh, then go ahead.’ 1990 Poetry Rev. Spring 35/2 The husband? Oh, he went wrong, or died, Or something. 2001 Muzik Jan. 90/2 What's on it? Oh, all the classics. 4. Added after the rhyme word at the end of a line in a ballad, song, etc., for metrical reasons; = O int. 3. Now rare and humorous. ΚΠ 1786 in A. Smith Musical Misc. liii. 101 Cold is the blast upon my pale cheek, But colder your love unto me, Oh. 1867 W. S. Gilbert La Vivandiere i. 9 Respect my accents moany, oh. 1910 H. E. P. Spofford Fairy Changeling 60 Little Jo: She's my airy, fairy, oh, She's my darling, I'm her Jo. 2000 M. Coward Best of ‘Round The Horne’ 1st Ser. Programme 14. 55/2 Well now, dang me down a doodle oh, in the past week I've been a'rambling and a'roving. B. n.¹ An utterance or exclamation of ‘oh’.Frequently preceding another interjection, together forming a noun phrase. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or exclamation > [noun] > other specific cries or exclamations O?c1225 heyc1400 hoc1405 whoopc1450 oha1535 ooh1602 whowb1602 phew1613 hogmanay1692 ah1712 yo-hope1724 whew1751 whoo1763 yah1812 yo-heave-ho1813 yoicks1817 yo-he-ho1827 yo1830 boo1833 yoick1854 hot-cha-cha1932 ooh-la-la1952 ooh-ah1957 eina1971 eish2005 a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) iii. x. sig. O.viii He fette a long sighe with an Oh from y^e bottome of hys breste. 1597 T. Middleton Wisdome of Solomon Paraphr. xi. sig. O^v God sent sad-ohes, for shadowes of lament. 1646 R. Crashaw Sospetto d'Herode xxv, in Steps to Temple 59 A desperate, Oh mee, drew from his deepe brest. 1712 Spectator No. 400. ⁋4 An Interjection, an Ah, or an Oh, at some little Hazard in moving or making a Step. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 33 Phoebe grew more composed, after two or three sighs, and heart-fetch'd Oh's! and giving me a kiss,..she replaced the bed-cloaths over us. 1794 S. Rowson Charlotte (new ed.) II. xviii. 138 I shall never have patience to get through these volumes, there are so many ahs! and ohs! so much fainting, tears, and distress. 1820 W. Tooke tr. Lucian Lucian of Samosata I. l. 386 Never-ending ohs and ahs. 1852 C. Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) I. 384 Oh! the professions; oh! the gold; and oh! the French—these three oh's all rank as dreadful bugbears. 1868 L. M. Alcott Little Women I. ii. 37 As the plates went round..the ice began to melt out of sight with ohs! and ahs! of satisfaction. 1910 J. London Sel. Stories §10 936 When Danny stripped, there was ohs! and ahs! of delight. 1960 J. W. Bellah Sergeant Rutledge xvii. 84 There will be no female ‘ohs’ and ‘ahs’, or pretty little chitterings of outraged virtue and modesty if they happen to offended by any testimony that may transpire. 1983 Listener 6 Jan. 21/3 Pop lyrics writers throw in an ‘oh yeah’ or a ‘baby’ wherever the syllable-count needs padding out. Phrases oh-so: preceding an adjective or adverb with ironical or sarcastic connotations. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > very tooc888 swith971 wellOE wellOE fullOE rightc1175 muchc1225 wellac1275 gainlya1375 endlyc1440 hard?1440 very1448 odda1500 great1535 jolly1549 fellc1600 veryvery1649 gooda1655 vastly1664 strange1667 bloody1676 ever so1686 heartily1727 real1771 precious1775 quarely1805 murry1818 très1819 freely1820 powerfula1822 gurt1824 almighty1830 heap1832 all-fired1833 gradely1850 real1856 bonny1857 heavens1858 veddy1859 canny1867 some1867 oh-so1881 storming1883 spanking1886 socking1896 hefty1898 velly1898 fair dinkum1904 plurry1907 Pygmalion1914 dinkum1915 beaucoup1918 dirty1920 molto1923 snorting1924 honking1929 hellishing1931 thumpingly1948 way1965 mega1966 mondo1968 seriously1970 totally1972 mucho1978 stonking1990 1881 W. S. Gilbert Patience ii. 31 Col. (apologetically). I'm afraid we're not quite right. Ang. Not supremely, perhaps, but, oh so all-but! Oh, Saphir, are they not quite too all-but? 1922 Sketch 29 Mar. 513/3 A big grey felt hat, which looked, oh, so Spanish! 1952 M. Laski Village ii. 33 Her sweet but, oh, so uninteresting face. 1960 J. Betjeman Summoned by Bells vii. 66 That mawkish and oh-so-melodious book Holds one great truth. 1972 J. Gores Dead Skip xiv. 97 The mailboxes were set against the oh-so-rustic redwood slat fence. 2002 N.Y. Times Mag. 6 Oct. 22/2 To them the number 88 is an oh-so-secret coded symbol for ‘heil Hitler’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.²1908v.1837int.n.¹?a1525
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