ooh
/uː
/exclamation
Used to express a range of emotions including surprise, delight, or pain: ooh, this is fun ooh, my feet!...
- Plenty creepy, and there was all sorts of atmospheric sound going on that made it even creepier: the creeeeaky apartment door, the echoes of people walking up the stairs above us, and distant sirens - ooh!
- It was this program that alerted otherwise unimaginative network execs to an apparently untapped demand for the weird, and trained viewers to accept that sometimes, nothing makes se - ooh!
- If my typing seems unusually quirky and vivacious this morning, it's because I just installed a new wireless keyboard and mouse. ooh!
noun
An utterance of ‘ooh’: the oohs and aahs of the enthusiastic audience...
- They could easily go to sleep to the murmuring oohs and aahs of connoisseurs and pedants.
- There were oohs and aahs on the steps of St. Conleth's Park, Newbridge last Wednesday week, when the draw for the SFC pitted old and deadly rivals Round Towers and Ellistown in the quarterfinals.
- A concert on the courthouse steps will feature the wonderful creations of Galway-based group Macmas, with giant spiders and humorous characters guaranteed to create lots of oohs and aahs from the public.
verb (oohs, oohing, oohed) [no object]
Utter an ‘ooh’: visitors oohed and aahed at the Christmas tree...
- I sat on my bed, oohing and aahing over every tiny piece of adorable newborn clothing - the little kimonos, the wee little hats, the tiny little tee shirts - until I pulled out a ratty Ace bandage.
- I'll be on the carport roof with my ice cream sandwich oohing and aahing with the best of them, providing a mouth watering target for my paranoid, Holden driving, gun-toting neighbours.
- After oohing and aahing at the view (even me, vertigo-on-a-staircase man), we grappled with the extensive, if not adventurous, menu.
Origin
Natural exclamation: first recorded in English in the early 20th century.