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- verb Present participle of
oh .
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Examples
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He ended with two pictures: a drunkard's house and family, and a sober man's; both so true and dramatic in all their details that the wives fell all to "ohing" and "ahing," and "Eh, but that is a true word."
The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849
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But you must excuse me, my insufficient young lecturer, if I yawn over your imperfect sentences, your repeated phrases, your false pathos, your drawlings and denouncings, your humming and hawing, your ohing and ahing, your black gloves and your white handkerchief.
Barchester Towers 2004
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I got through craning my neck and ohing and ahing, looked down and saw a toy village some distance away below us.
The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967
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I’m ohing and ahing over the colors Asparagus and Sailcloth.
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