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  • interjection onomatopoeia, slang, emphatic Same as ouch.

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Examples

  • Check this quotation from Luther, and say "yowch":

    Latest Articles Pyromaniacs 2008

  • He speshilly had to be caerful arownd teh docks – teh fishyhooks wuz bad enuf, but wehn it caem to teh anchors…yowch!

    Mike soon regretted - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • There's a complete Calvin and Hobbes hardcover archival collection (a la the totally stunning $100 Far Side box set from last year) coming out, priced at $150 (yowch, but man, how totally cool to own one of these!).

    Boing Boing: September 19, 2004 - September 25, 2004 Archives 2004

  • If it IS your drug, well, yowch, you'll put up with the bullshit.

    Writing: Q&A #1 Rogers 2005

  • Day number three after my migraine, and although the pain has lessened, there's still this ghost of a yowch there.

    31st January '04 2004

  • Harrison Jones created this fabulous green army man costume which included a coating of green latex paint on his skin, yowch, suffer for your art!

    Boing Boing Cory Doctorow 2011

  • Turns out not so much, but that may be just as well, since many of those who have received the $99 (yowch!) cable don't seem very happy with it.

    Macworld 2009

  • Turns out not so much, but that may be just as well, since many of those who have received the $99 (yowch!) cable don't seem very happy with it.

    Macworld 2009

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