单词 | aha |
释义 | ahaint.n. A. int. Expressing triumph, satisfaction, realization, discovery, or (now rarely) mockery or irony. Cf. ah int. 3, 4, ha int. 1b. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > realization or discovery [interjection] ahaa1400 ah1591 Eureka1818 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > exclamations of contempt [interjection] prut?c1300 trutc1330 truptc1380 ahaa1400 tushc1440 puff1481 quotha?1520 ah?1526 ta ha1528 twish1577 blurt1592 gip1592 pish1592 tantia1593 (God) bless (also save) the mark1593 phah1593 marry come up1597 mew1600 pooh1600 marry muff1602 pew waw1602 ptish1602 pew1604 push1605 pshaw1607 tuh1607 pea1608 poh1650 pooh pooh1694 hoity-toity1695 highty-tighty1699 quoz?1780 indeed1834 shuck1847 skidoo1906 suck1913 zut1915 yah boo1921 pooey1927 ptui1930 snubs1934 upya1941 yah boo sucks1980 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > exclamation of surprise [interjection] whatOE well, wellOE avoyc1300 ouc1300 ay1340 lorda1393 ahaa1400 hillaa1400 whannowc1450 wow1513 why?1520 heydaya1529 ah1538 ah me!a1547 fore me!a1547 o me!a1547 what the (also a) goodyear1570 precious coals1576 Lord have mercy (on us)1581 good heavens1588 whau1589 coads1590 ay me!1591 my stars!a1593 Gods me1595 law1598 Godso1600 to go out1600 coads-nigs1608 for mercy!a1616 good stars!1615 mercy on us (also me, etc.)!a1616 gramercy1617 goodness1623 what next?1662 mon Dieu1665 heugh1668 criminy1681 Lawd1696 the dickens1697 (God, etc.) bless my heart1704 alackaday1705 (for) mercy's sake!1707 my1707 deuce1710 gracious1712 goodly and gracious1713 my word1722 my stars and garters!1758 lawka1774 losha1779 Lord bless me (also you, us, etc.)1784 great guns!1795 mein Gott1795 Dear me!1805 fancy1813 well, I'm sure!1815 massy1817 Dear, dear!1818 to get off1818 laws1824 Mamma mia1824 by crikey1826 wisha1826 alleleu1829 crackey1830 Madonna mia1830 indeed1834 to go on1835 snakes1839 Jerusalem1840 sapristi1840 oh my days1841 tear and ages1841 what (why, etc.) in time?1844 sakes alive!1846 gee willikers1847 to get away1847 well, to be sure!1847 gee1851 Great Scott1852 holy mackerel!1855 doggone1857 lawsy1868 my wig(s)!1871 gee whiz1872 crimes1874 yoicks1881 Christmas1882 hully gee1895 'ullo1895 my hat!1899 good (also great) grief!1900 strike me pink!1902 oo-er1909 what do you know?1909 cripes1910 coo1911 zowiec1913 can you tie that?1918 hot diggety1924 yeow1924 ziggety1924 stone (or stiffen) the crows1930 hullo1931 tiens1932 whammo1932 po po po1936 how about that?1939 hallo1942 brother1945 tie that!1948 surprise1953 wowee1963 yikes1971 never1974 to sod off1976 whee1978 mercy1986 yipes1989 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > exclamation of wonder [interjection] ahaa1400 ocha1522 heydaya1529 ah1538 ah me!a1547 fore me!a1547 o me!a1547 gossea1556 ay me!1591 o (also oh) rare!1596 law1598 strangec1670 lack-a-day1695 stap my vitals1697 alackaday1705 prodigious1707 my word1722 (by) golly1743 gosh1757 Dear me!1805 Madre de Dios1815 Great Jove!1819 I snum1825 crikey1826 my eye1826 crackey1830 snakes1839 Great Scott1852 holy mackerel!1855 whoops1870 this beats my grandmother1883 wow1892 great balls of fire1893 oo-er1909 zowiec1913 crimes1929 yowa1943 wowee1963 Madre mia!1964 yikes1971 whee1978 chingas1984 the mind > emotion > exclamation of emotion [interjection] > sudden advent of emotion > expression of surprise ahaa1400 the mind > emotion > pleasure > contentment or satisfaction > expression of content or satisfaction [interjection] ahaa1400 this is the life1775 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [interjection] > expression of triumph ahaa1400 victory1595 victoria1639 huzza1682 hurrah1716 the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rejoicing or exultation > shout of rejoicing or exultation [interjection] ahaa1400 Io1592 hurrah1716 holla1735 holla ho!1871 Geronimo1942 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 9651 (MED) Aha! þat wreche wit-vten freind! c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 576 A .ha. by god, I haue my tale ageyn. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 8 A-ha, evax. 1509 Parlyament Deuylles (de Worde) sig. B.iiv A ha sayd Adam, my god I se. 1573 T. Cooper Briefe Expos. f. 53v Aha, I am well warmed, I haue beene at the fire. 1611 Bible (King James) Ps. xxxv. 21 Yea they opened their mouth wide against me, and saide, Aha, Aha, our eye hath seene it. View more context for this quotation a1681 J. Lacy Sr. Hercules Buffoon (1684) ii. iv. 17 Aha Sirrah, here's Learning in this, 'tis ingenious and admirable. 1762 T. Smollett Adventures Sir Launcelot Greaves I. vi. 131 Aha! do'st thou tip me the traveller, my boy? 1799 W. Scott tr. J. W. von Goethe Goetz of Berlichingen iii. 127 Aha! there comes a red gowned rascal to ask me whether I will be a scoundrel! 1822 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 18 May 1/3 Aha! you have been about mischief, my chap; what did you do, eh? 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. ii. i. 171 She..cried, with a waggish shake of her head: ‘Aha! Caught you spying, did I?’ 1929 M. de la Roche Whiteoaks xiv. 188 Aha..that's what I like to hear! Young lads racketing about! 1970 A. Gray Unlikely Stories (1984) 21 Where's my dog? Aha, there he is below the table! 2002 J. McGahern That they may face Rising Sun (2003) 171 ‘Did you get the loan or not? Yes or no?’ ‘We didn't.’ ‘Aha, I knew it,’ he said triumphantly. B. n. 1. An exclamation of ‘aha’. ΚΠ 1895 J. C. Tucker Golden Goal & Other Sketches 88 Simply uttering an ‘Ah, ha!’ of recognition of his..conqueror from the border State. 1907 W. De Morgan Alice-for-Short 110 Whereon Robin lets loose a sly perspicuous ‘Aha!’ 1968 A. Sonnenfeld in H. J. Mooney & T. F. Staley Shapeless God ix. 191 The priest could not suppress an ‘Aha’. 1988 Alcalde (Univ. Texas) Sept.–Oct. 9/1 There are hundreds of interesting things about the University that most people don't know—the kind of things which..bring forth an ‘Ah-ha’ when somebody hears them for the first time. 1991 L. L. Nash in C. R. Christensen et al. Educ. for Judgment xiii. 240 One of the most effective ways of provoking an aha! is to present a new puzzle whose solution rests on material learned more than a month earlier. 2002 Washington Post (Nexis) 6 Oct. c1 Each discovery was punctuated with an ‘Aha!’ 2. A revelation, a moment of sudden insight or discovery. Cf. aha moment at Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > [noun] > a disclosure > striking revelationa1625 Parousia1941 aha1980 1980 T. Galanoy Charge It iv. 61 Stuck with some outstanding debt, McNamara was discussing recovery possibilities at lunch one day with his attorney, when he had an ‘aha!’ 1994 New York Mag. 9 May 64/1 Knowing a story will end in revelations—shocking, meaningful ahas! that will cast light on what's come before. 2000 S. P. Zackheim Getting your Bk. published for Dummies iii. 40 Create an ‘aha’ for the reader. A title can work if a reader..feels that the title captures a truth that had been hidden before and is suddenly revealed. Compounds C1. attributive. Originally Psychology. Relating to or characterized by sudden insight or discovery, as aha moment [originally after German Aha-Moment (1914 or earlier)] , aha reaction, etc. Cf. Eureka moment n. at Eureka int. Additions. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > [noun] > moment of aha moment1931 1931 School Executives Mag. Feb. 274/1 This German professor stated that their language had no word expressing the satisfaction coming from such realization and for that reason they call it the ‘Aha Moment’! 1951 D. Rapaport tr. K. Bühler in Organization & Pathol. Thought ii. 49 Then comprehension came suddenly with an affect like ‘Aha!’ (not spoken)... [Note] To my knowledge, this is the first mention of the often-quoted aha-phenomenon. 1970 A. Toffler Future Shock xv. 300 At the level of ideas or cognition, this is the ‘a-hah!’ reaction we experience at a moment of revelation, when we finally understand something that has been puzzling us. 2010 K. Nolan in M. Walshaw Unpacking Pedagogy viii. 163 A few students would experience ‘aha’ moments and suddenly understand what I was trying to do. C2. aha experience n. [after German Aha-Erlebnis (K. Bühler 1908, in Archiv f. die gesamte Psychol. 12 18)] originally Psychology an experience of sudden insight or discovery. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > [noun] > moment of > experience of click1880 aha experience1923 1923 P. J. W. Pigors tr. W. Eliasberg in Psychol. Bull. 20 433 This ‘Aha-experience’ of insight bears a close resemblance to the well-known ‘water experience’ of Helen Keller. 1980 Dædalus Spring 131 Those famous moments of inspiration, one-liners, and ‘Aha!’ experiences that creativity studies cite. 2003 R. Smilkstein We're born to Learn vi. 149 The learner..has an ‘aha’ experience and can say, ‘Oh, now I see how these areas relate!’ 2007 D. S. Wilson Evol. for Everyone xxiv. 190 Here is how he describes his aha experience in the introduction to our edited volume. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > as lemmasAHA AHA n. Chemistry alpha-hydroxy acid. ΚΠ 1955 U.S. Patent 2,721,188 39 (table) Percent of rosin based on the wt. of the AHA, estolides, and rosin, percent by weight. 1991 USA Weekend (Nexis) 5 Jan. 24 AHAs are natural—found in sour milk, old wine, fruit and sugar cane—and have none of Retin-A's negative side effects. 2008 Men's Health May 158/1 Used once a week with an exfoliator, an AHA can help you flatten out the topography of wrinkled areas. < int.n.a1400 as lemmas |
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