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  • verb Present participle of ooh.

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Examples

  • If I hadn't been "oohing" and "ahhing" and shouting my excitment to Susan, Zoe, and Mason, I think most people wouldn't even have stopped.

    Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2007

  • I was "oohing" and "aahing" at each pic -- then I "oohed" at the frosted cake pic not thinking it wasn't a chocolatey tidepool.

    37 Dr. Lisa 2007

  • People pointing and "oohing" and even a little "ahhhing" being murmured throughout the crowd.

    unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2008

  • When you get tired you get really vocal, and loud...just kind of oohing and ahhing, and groaning.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Kat 2006

  • When you get tired you get really vocal, and loud...just kind of oohing and ahhing, and groaning.

    Maxwell Hunter: 4 months old. Kat 2006

  • A pause before the next burst, the children chattering excitedly, "oohing" and "aahing" as they spotted the lights of the Christmas tree.

    Frost at Christmas Wingfield, R. D. 1984

  • It's not to say that they were in-sync the entire time; often, and deliberately so, they take it upon themselves in doing vocal jams, utilizing looping effects - "Leaf House," benefited from this most, with a captivating, almost trance like "oohing" and "ahhing" for several minutes.

    Filter Magazine 2009

  • The first time on opening Friday I was overwhelmed by the screams of teenage girls every time Edward came on or whenever a kiss or could have been a kiss scene happened and then the "oohing" and "ahwing" starts.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • Markko, Langston, Starr and Cole are "oohing" and "ahhhing" over a bootleg copy of Nine.

    AfterElton.com - Because visibility matters 2009

  • Just as he started to put it together, and his friends were "oohing" over the ammo, his wife came up, smacked him upside the head and told him to put the damn thing up.

    Planet Atheism 2009

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