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- interjection onomatopoeia, slang, emphatic Same as
ouch .
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Check this quotation from Luther, and say "yowch":
Latest Articles Pyromaniacs 2008
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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
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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
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If it IS your drug, well, yowch, you'll put up with the bullshit.
Writing: Q&A #1 Rogers 2005
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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
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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
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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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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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