Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- interj. Used especially in response to sudden pain.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- An interjection expressing surprise, pain, or other feeling, according to circumstances.
- An obsolete form of you.
Wiktionary
- interj. Same as ouch.
Examples
“Ow, ow, ow_! came from a couple of hundred yards away -- a hollow, diabolical kind of mocking laugh which sent a chill through the listeners.”
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“[N] ow is a time for respect, reflection and remembrance," Rick Scott, chairman of Conservatives for Patients 'Rights, said in a statement.”
“[N] ow is a time for respect, reflection and remembrance," Rick Scott, chairman of Conservatives for Patients 'Rights, said in an August 26 statement announcing the temporary halt to health care ads.”
“Keep it up! on August 28, 2008 at 8: 12 am | Reply Nilsa ow is it that in looking for the answers, I only find more questions?”
“ungry an' thinkin '' ow I'd worked all the years o 'my life an' now”
“It's probably a good thing that you can't hear us, since I not only called your ow resident geek.”
“Management analyzes operating cash fl ows by tracking free cash fl ow, which is calculated using net cash provided by operating activities, adding back after-tax cash used for restructuring activities and proceeds on the sale of fi xed assets, then subtracting capital expenditures, including those fi nanced with capital leases.”
“this is so cool i love the new dora and ps: thay are sill going to show the new dora im ok with it and dora is is my grandmas name ow and im 14”
“That happens because the sampling rate is kept high for long complex sounds like "ow", but cut down for simple consonants like "c".”
“So the number of words you can create is in fact only limited by your patience - which worked the same way with the English language experiment I conducted during the run to list 100 marathon runners' words for pain using Anglo-Saxon modifiers like 'ow', and 'fucking-ow'.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ow’.
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one word exclamations
keep it rated G please, thanks!
( open list, randomness )zoiks, sheesh, gosh, shucks, jeez, woot, heck, thunderation, oops, gadzooks, what, hey and 90 more...
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sound (quiet)
words for quiet sounds
( randomness, descriptive )sigh, murmur, whisper, whir, rustle, patter, hum, snap, hiss(sss), crackle, bleat, peep and 185 more...
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WORDNIK - words found in "Wordnik"
kino, din, dink, dirk, do, don, dor, dork, dow, down, drink, drown and 54 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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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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Acceptable two-letter Scrabble words
aa, ab, ad, ae, ag, ah, ai, al, am, an, ar, as and 89 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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Bigrams
Two-letter words that are common. For a full list of all possible 2-letter words, check out this list.
my, by, ay, ax, ew, aw, ix, it, at, is, as, ox and 39 more...
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2 Letter Scrabble Words
All playable 2 letter Scrabble words from OSPD4
aa, ab, ad, ae, ag, ah, ai, al, am, an, ar, as and 87 more...
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Ellynguistix
First 50 words for miss Elise, before age 2. Today's date is 6/18/07.
Top ten most commonly said words are, in order: (1) Ow (2) Nooooo (3) Kitty (4) Mama (5) Monkey (6) Up (6) Food (7...mama, kitty, meow, monkey, ducky, quack, doggie, arf, eat, food, door, oh god and 38 more...
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Amity's words
My daughter's expressive vocabulary as of Dec 2012 (born May '11), including quasi-lexical interjections. No attempt is made to reflect (mis)pronunciation by phonetic spelling, even though it would...
ball, eye, car, apple, cheese, milk, bottle, water, light, no, dad, mom and 43 more...
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Scrabble
aa, oot, amidic, spue, os, dex, ab, fa, id, exequy, muumuu, sei and 8 more...
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OSPD4 two-letter words
za, ye, ya, xu, xi, wo, we, ut, us, up, un, um and 88 more...
Tweets
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ruzuzu See electric shock. Aug 30, 2010