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Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as o.
- n. One of the Sandwich Island honeysuckers, Moho or Acrulocercus nobilis, the bright yellow axillary feathers of which were used with those of the mamo in making cloaks and leis for the chiefs. See Moho, with cut.
Wiktionary
- adj. computing Initialism of object-oriented.
- n. obsolete The Greek letter omega.
- n. A Hawaiian honeyeater of the genus Moho, now believed to be extinct.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete One.
- n. (Zoöl.) A beautiful bird (Moho nobilis) of the Hawaiian Islands. It yields the brilliant yellow feathers formerly used in making the royal robes. Called also
yellow-tufted honeysucker .
Etymologies
- Representation of a long-o sound. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“-- Tbere is juft half a year's rent due the twentjMifth of this month,; rhich is the very day after tomorrow: — fhe never ufcd to be fo behindhand 3 but the m is for t une they have met with has been long coining oo,”
“Unlike their American double 'oo'-ed cousins, these almond cookies bear smooth tops and sandwich creamy fillings for a wonderful chewey texture.”
“I've heard modern productions do all sorts of things to get round the problem - usually by lengthening the 'o' at the end, so that it becomes more 'oo'-like, for both bow-wow and dow.”
“Weya Muneto a ispeeche saketapun uske, ke niakew oo pauko-Koosisana, piko una tapwatowayitche numaweya oo ga nissewunatissety, maka oo ga ayaty kakeka pimatissewin.”
On the Indian Trail Stories of Missionary Work among Cree and Salteaux Indians
“Or that there's a Japanese xx tribute band called the oo?”
“They even hijack OOo from Sun with go-oo, which is a Microsoftised vrsion of OOo (Mono, VB, OOXML, etc) schestowitz”
“One crucial test the authors would need to do would be to show that this "oo" suffix can be used productively.”
“The authors take this as evidence that "oo" is a suffix of some sort that modifies the meaning of the preceding part of the call.”
“On Halloween, for example, the "oo" might be replaced by two jack-o'lanterns.”
“Afterward, we returned to the pictures and especially to LaRoux, whose face he would study for long stretches and whose name he repeated with that evocative "oo" sound.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘oo’.
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Mahalo Hawaiʻi
The triggerfish humuhumunukunukuapuaa belongs on this list too.
ʻokina, U+02BB, mahalo, aloha, nene, a'a, muumuu, Malia, Leilani, Laysan, Laysan duck, Lani and 123 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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Vowels only. And I mean: ONLY
Words containing no consonants and found in at least one major dictionary.
Foreign words permitted.aa, eau, oui, aiee, I, oo, euouae, eye, you, ye, yo, yay and 17 more...
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Were you looking for
Wordnik understands your hidden desires with its "Were you looking for" feature. Were you looking for love? Approval? Santa's secret workshop in Gibraltar? Just click on the following words and phr...
A clean pair of s..., <3, Something new and..., Pants, A new job, Reesetee, Fufluns, A non-Cavendish b..., Vesiga, Love in all the w..., oo, the new WeirdNet and 8 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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Two-letter words banned in (American)...
Seventy two-letter words that are not in The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th edition (compared to 101 that are in OSPD4, as listed by robotjohnny.) Most are found as headwords in larger d...
ac, af, bb, bs, ce, co, cs, da, di, ds, du, dy and 58 more...
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OoOoOo
Words starting with oo. Because I like the way it looks and sounds.
oobleck, oologist, oosphere, oogonium, ooer, oolite, ookinete, oocyst, ootheca, oospore, oology, oo and 56 more...
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GoodDay
GoodDay
good, day, oo, oooo, empathetic
Tweets
Looking for tweets for oo.
frogapplause Who eats Cheerios on a plate? Mar 25, 2013
senseibena Those last two cheerios stuck to the plate after it's dried out. Mar 24, 2013
madmouth Were you looking for op and Oö
nice!
Apr 12, 2010
gangerh squidoo? May 9, 2008
dontcry those last two pieces of calamari on the bottom of the dish that everyone insists they're too stuffed to eat. May 9, 2008
dontcry those last two spaghetti-o's stuck to the bottom of the can.
May 9, 2008
gangerh O dear, I'm seeing two of you. May 9, 2008
vanishedone Oo, clever...
I'll go for 'a doughnut in cross-section'. May 9, 2008
pterodactyl Split infinity. May 8, 2008
oroboros Eyes. Pool balls. Expression of foreboding? May 8, 2008
cranewang Breasts. May 8, 2008
mollusque A Hawaiian honeyeater of the genus Moho. Dec 8, 2007