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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • interjection Used to express pleasure, satisfaction, surprise, or great joy.
  • intransitive verb To exclaim in pleasure, satisfaction, surprise, or great joy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • interjection An expression of surprise.
  • interjection An expression of awe.
  • interjection The sound made to imitate a ghost.
  • interjection Used sometimes because of affection
  • verb To go ooh

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb express admiration and pleasure by uttering `ooh' or `aah'

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  • Manx, "egg." That's cool.

    April 23, 2009