An exclamation expressing, in early use, disgust or indignant reproach. No longer current in dignified language; said to children to excite shame…

Exclamation of surprise, fear, remonstrance.

With immaterial object.

intransitive. In imperative. Used as a call or appeal to a person to recover his or her thoughts or emotions, or as a mild rebuke expressing…

An ejaculation (often reduplicated) expressing impatience or dissatisfaction with a statement, notion, or proceeding, or contemptuously dismissing…

At the beginning of a clause. Expressing (according to intonation) surprise, frustration, discomfort, longing, disappointment, sorrow, relief, etc…

An inarticulate exclamation uttered with the lips closed, either in a pause of hesitation or embarrassment, or as expressing slight…

An exclamation of surprise mixed with mild disapproval at some course of action considered frolicsome or flighty; = heyday, int., hoity-toity, int.…

In aroint thee! (? verb in the imperative, or interjection) meaning apparently: Avaunt! Begone!

An ejaculation expressing dissatisfaction with, or impatient and somewhat contemptuous dismissal of, a statement or notion: nearly synonymous with…

Representing a sound used to express disdain, contempt, disapproval, dissatisfaction, etc. Cf. pooh, int. boo hoo, int. 2 yah boo, int.

Representing a sound used to express disdain, contempt, disapproval, dissatisfaction, etc. Cf. boo, int. 2. In later use chiefly Australian and New Ze…

now, now: used as an expression of mild remonstrance.

An exclamation usually expressing mild remonstrance, entreaty, commiseration, disgust, or disapproval.

= tut, int. a (frequently reduplicated).

A sound expressing commiseration; an exclamation of disapproval or irritation.