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  • adverb Eye dialect spelling of yes, sir.
  • interjection Wow: an indication of surprise, excitement, or amazement.

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Examples

  • Actually, make that a double-yowzah: Remember that Goss is the one who plucked one of Wilkes 'old San Diego friends, the unusual and colorful Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, out of CIA middle-management obscurity to be his #3 at the agency.

    Peter Daou: CIA Director Resigns Abruptly, Bloggers 2 Steps Ahead of the Kennedy-Obsessed Media 2008

  • Actually, make that a double-yowzah: Remember that Goss is the one who plucked one of Wilkes' old San Diego friends, the unusual and colorful Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, out of CIA middle-management obscurity to be his #3 at the agency.

    Hullabaloo 2006

  • Black faces, white tablecloth, gleaming very sharp knives lined up by the saucers ... tobacco and "gage" smoke richly blended, eye-reddening and tart as wine, yowzah gwine smoke a little ob dis hyah sheeit gib de wrinkles in mah brain a process! straighten 'em all raht out, sho nuf!

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • Tell de res 'ob de trahb back in de village, yowzah!

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • "I recommend Sophie Coe's book," America's First Cuisines, "for an accurate and delicious account of pre-Columbian contributions to our diet." - by yowzah

    SFGate: Top News Stories Christine Delsol 2010

  • Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway carressing the pieces as they "play" for dominence ... yowzah!

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • Shannen Doherty's Brenda Walsh can't have kids (and might adopt - yowzah!), former druggie Adrianna Duncan (played by Jessica Lowndes) is preggers, half-brother Sean (Josh Henderson) was really a con man and that the cute cheerleader Christina Worthy (Lauren London) is a bisexual, it's hard to imagine there could be more.

    TV Envy 2009

  • Shannen Doherty's Brenda Walsh can't have kids (and might adopt - yowzah!), former druggie Adrianna Duncan (played by Jessica Lowndes) is preggers, half-brother Sean (Josh Henderson) was really a con man and that the cute cheerleader Christina Worthy (Lauren London) is a bisexual, it's hard to imagine there could be more.

    TV Envy 2009

  • Actually, make that a double-yowzah: Remember that Goss is the one who plucked one of Wilkes’ old San Diego friends, the unusual and colorful Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, out of CIA middle-management obscurity to be his #3 at the agency.

    Think Progress » Kristol: ‘Sudden’ Goss Resignation Prompted By ‘Something That Popped This Week’ 2006

  • Fantasticus are aptly named – they are in a grow-out tank now, but once they’re in a nicely planted enclosure – yowzah!

    Vivarium work 2007

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