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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. interj. Used to express sympathy, tenderness, disapproval, or disbelief.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. See awe.
  2. An exclamation of surprise, disgust, or remonstrance.
  3. A common English digraph (pron. â), formerly interchangeable in most instances with au (which see), but now the regular form when final, and when medial before k, l, and n. Historically it represents, in older words, a with an absorbed guttural, as in haw, law, maw, saw, saw, awn, dawn, etc.; , , a with an absorbed labial (w or v), as in awl, claw, raw, awk, hawk, crawl, etc.; a, au, or o in other positions and of various origin, as in yawn, yawl, lawn, pawn, pawl, bawl, etc. In later words often a mere accident of spelling.
  4. A simplified spelling of awe.

Wiktionary

  1. interj. Used to express disappointment/dismay.
  2. interj. Used to express mild protest, entreaty, consternation, or disapproval.
  3. interj. Used to express affection.

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