ow1
/aʊ
/exclamation
Used to express sudden pain: Ow! You’re hurting me!...
- ‘OW! Let me go!’ you tell him. He doesn't listen to you.
- Kevin gasped as the pain once again shot through his back, ‘Ow!’
Origin
Natural exclamation: first recorded in English in the mid 19th century.
Rhymes
OW2
abbreviation
Old Welsh.