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. Eye dialect 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.
Etymologies
- mid-1400s Old Frankish (replacing English la) (Wiktionary)
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 fo...
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 a...
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...
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Grunts, Sounds, Calls
Aah, achoo, ack, ah, aha, ahem, ah-ha, aw, baa, bah, blah, boo and 64 more...
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Acceptable two-letter Scrabble words
aa, ab, ad, ae, ag, ah, ai, al, am, an, ar, as and 89 more...
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I Live a (SOWPODS) Hardscrabble Life
aa, ad, ae, ah, ai, am, an, ar, as, at, aw, ax and 168 more...
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Bigrams
Two-letter words that are common. For a full list of all possible 2-letter words, check out this list.
my, by, ay, ax, ew, aw, ix, it, at, is, as, ox and 39 more...
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for me not to overuse when public-spe...
um, ah, if you will, sort of, well, so, kind of, like, you know, man, dude, totally and 11 more...
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2 Letter Scrabble Words
All playable 2 letter Scrabble words from OSPD4
aa, ab, ad, ae, ag, ah, ai, al, am, an, ar, as and 87 more...
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OSPD4 two-letter words
za, ye, ya, xu, xi, wo, we, ut, us, up, un, um and 88 more...
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hanabiheidi's Words
conspicuous, errata, vaguely, indeed, spork, cleave, ah, applicable, subtlety, alleged, rapscallion, sinecure and 64 more...
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chicie's words she likes
well, i kinda just signed up two seconds ago, and don't really know what i'm doing yet. so here i'll add words i like. some i know i like more than others, but i'll sort that out later.
maniacal, delusional, rather, ah, lugubrious, cadaver, ish, cellar door, penumbra, elusive, ethereal, punctilious and 22 more...
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Exclamations!
Go on, express that feeling! Cor Blimey!
cripes, blimey, dang, gosh, woah, golly, gadzooks, wow, oh, whoops, darn, damn and 19 more...
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tidbits
ju, hi, me, be, mo, jo, ka, er, da, oh, ah, eh and 4 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for ah.
cricket *sigh* Feb 2, 2008