Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- interj. Used to express strong emotion, such as surprise, fear, anger, or pain.
- interj. Used in direct address: Oh, sir! You forgot your keys.
- interj. Used to indicate understanding or acknowledgment of a statement.
- n. Zero.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- See O.
- An abbreviation of Old High German.
Wiktionary
- interj. Expression of surprise.
- interj. Expression of wonder, amazement, or awe.
- interj. Expression of understanding, recognition, or realization.
- interj. A word to precede an offhand or annoyed remark.
- interj. A word to precede an added or comment or afterthought.
- interj. An invocation or address (similar to the vocative in languages with noun declension).
- interj. Exclamation for drama or emphasis (often poetic).
- interj. Expression of pain. See ouch.
- interj. Space filler or extra syllable, especially in (popular) music.
- interj. Used with a term of endearment.
- interj. interrogative Expression of mild scepticism
- n. the letter O, o (more commonly spelled o)
- n. the digit 0 (especially in representations of speech)
- n. An utterance of oh; a spoken expression of surprise, acknowledgement, etc.
- v. intransitive To utter the interjection oh; to express surprise, etc.
GNU Webster's 1913
- interj. An exclamation expressing various emotions, according to the tone and manner, especially surprise, pain, sorrow, anxiety, or a wish. See the Note under o.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
Etymologies
- From the number zero's resemblance to the letter O. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“December 28, 2007 at 11:51 am oh IBK……dat eaz ….dat waz…..oh teh fooey….ai dont hab teh werdz fur wat dat waz…..”
has you ever danced - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“I don't see religion, I don't meet someone and say 'what are you? oh, Mormon..oh sorry no thanks!”
“Oh, oh, _oh_!" screamed Grace, pressing her hands tightly before her eyes.”
The Outdoor Girls on Pine Island Or, A Cave and What It Contained
“Oh -- oh -- _oh_ --" she said; and darting from him, ran up-stairs, stumbling on the unaccustomed length of her skirt and catching at the banisters to keep from falling.”
“Oh, oh, _oh_!" she sobbed, hiding her face closer to his shoulder.”
“And, "Oh -- oh -- _oh_!!" she sobbed, collapsing in his arms and clinging to him convulsively as he carried her to her tumbled bed and laid her there.”
“Oh, oh, _oh_!" was all she could say as she sat there, swaying herself back and forth, and holding the baby to her flushed cheek.”
“big news day btwn last night's fight at FBF and the cyclist getting charged for slapping the side of the SUV in the bike lane oh, the driver got out and assaulted him, but never mind that..oh, and he was 60 plus years old”
“And Irene and Anon and oh crap let’s imagine Greg directing us in singing Kumbiyah around a stoopid campfire with our sticks of ‘Smores gooshing from melting crackling marshmallows and chocolate…..oh hell, Simon, do I ever need a laffffffff!”
“November 12, 2009 at 4:58 am oh man…..oh man…..ohmanohmanohmanohman………donnie, i tell ya what mate, if my appetite hasn’t been whetted enough before well, my man, you’ve just lifted it to a near-frenzy…….goddam it it’s not fair that i have to wait until it comes halfway around the globe for me to read it……”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘oh’.
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EN - pronunciation fun
All words of the poem
The Chaos
by Gerard Nolst Trenité
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse <...abyss, ache, actual, advice, aerie, age, ague, aisles, alas, alien, alive, allowed and 406 more...
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Words that can be spelled on an upsid...
Imagine my joy when I was wearing my calculator watch and was first introduced to someone named Leslie - there was exactly enough room on the display for 317537.14.
Edit: I've discove...hi, hello, leslie, sheesh, she, bells, hells, hog, boss, goggles, he, bob and 233 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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Grunts, Sounds, Calls
Aah, achoo, ack, ah, aha, ahem, ah-ha, aw, baa, bah, blah, boo and 64 more...
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Twitter faves
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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niglets, aw, flakey, shiznit, thatch, sexy, bummers, hotty, eargasms, ratchetry, weird, fab and 599 more... -
Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 2465 more... -
Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 3099 more... -
adamogiovane's Words
older woman, younger man, age gap relationship, non-fiction, sensuality, relationship, life, sex, love, hugs, kisses, breast and 147 more...
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tree's Words
aphasia, anhedonia, promontory, misandry, amanuensis, asymptote, penultimate, muslin, tundra, calico, kinaesthesia, rutabaga and 209 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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tomax's Words
legerdemain, yayo, extravasation, wont, faze, coxswain, concomitant, enclave, unguent, rhabdomyolysis, effluent, puerile and 432 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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amberella's Words
facetious, behoove, akrasia, schadenfreude, halcyon, vapid, wanderlust, bluestocking, drazel, succinct, literati, geason and 116 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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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
Tweets
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