Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- interj. Used to express various emotions, such as satisfaction, surprise, delight, dislike, or pain.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- An exclamation expressive of pain, surprise, pity, compassion, complaint, contempt, dislike, joy, exultation, etc., according to the manner of utterance.
Wiktionary
- interj. An expression of relief, relaxation, comfort, confusion, understanding, wonder, awe, et cetera according to uttered inflection.
- interj. A word used for drama or emphasis.
- interj. A syllable used to fill space, particularly in music.
- n. An instance of the interjection ah.
- pro. alternative spelling of I, most often indicating that the speaker is using an American (particularly Southern) accent.
GNU Webster's 1913
- interj. An exclamation, expressive of surprise, pity, complaint, entreaty, contempt, threatening, delight, triumph, etc., according to the manner of utterance.
Examples
“Errr….ummmm…..ah meanz ah am in no whey oldz enuff to member de top cat cartooney!”
enemy sighted - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“You do maarvellous. all the best vera goulart said … hi! dear HANNA .. i just see in hebreu dicionary!!! ah ¨ah ¨ah ¨ ..... we keep contact”
“Oh, ah want, ah want, _ah want tuh heah mah Hannah laff again!”
“And of course, he is a Military Expert, having served in – ah, what branch of the service was that?”
“We are also told that No-ah is struggling with his apprenticeship, but we are never told why or what the problem is.”
“No-ah is a novice magician living with his three pets: Guru (a male cat), Nanai (a male dog), and Pritz Rang (a female mouse).”
“Just a breath of balmy air, and then the long cold frost again -- ah! they knew it well and lost no time.”
“Just this past weekend I cleaned my scrap room so that I could see the floor again .... ah, it never lasts long!”
“But as an adult, I regarded the memory of these trips with a mildly affectionate disdain – ah, such innocent fun, but such bourgeois misunderstanding of what constitutes NATURE and WILDERNESS.”
“:: Yes, except as the other poster said, it the show would be cho and mee-cho-ah is very much run together.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ah’.
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Sounds often heard during a search for a hard t...
um, er, hmm, ah, well, �?��?��?�, erm, uh, um-um-um, ehm, anu, gizmo and 11 more...
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Sounds
lots and lots of noises
aa-ooo-aa-ooo-aaa..., aaa-eee, aaaa, aaa, aaaah, ah, aaaooooo, aaiiii-eeee, aeee, ai ai ai, ai yaaa, ai-yai-ai and 22 more...
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Interjections spelled with only H's and vowels
ha!, aha!, ho ho ho!, hee hee!, oho!, uh-oh, heh, heh-heh, oh, ah, huh, eh and 12 more...
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Doo-it-yourself Doowop List
Just add a few of these words and phrases together to create your own doowop song.
doo wop, doo, wop, lama, shama, dong, ding, dooooo -wop-wop, shama lama, bom-bom-bom, doo-wop, shang-a-lang and 35 more...
cricket *sigh* Feb 2, 2008