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plural of ooh

as in aahs

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verb

present tense third-person singular of ooh

as in shouts

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Noun

Bernardo Silva, possibly Guardiola’s favourite ever player according to some close to him, is still known as ‘Bernardiki’ around the dressing room, even among new players, because that is what Guardiola called him two years ago, during one of his regularly strange training-session exclamations.

— Sam Lee, New York Times, 25 May 2026
The deck is silent but for the clicking of cameras and the low buzz of exclamations as a new set of lights appear.

— Heather Greenwood Davis, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2026

Definition of exclamations

Verb

In the background, an adult voice shouts at the bear, helping to scare the animal off.

— Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026
If a street preacher shouts their sermon into a bullhorn on a public street, and a nearby business owner calls the police, who is in the right?

— Emily Holshouser July 2, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 July 2026

Definition of shouts

Noun

But Weitz’s scratches of synth and interjections of hurdy-gurdy—the instrument at the heart of his solo debut—complicate the surface-level beauty.

— Ethan Beck, Pitchfork, 12 May 2026
Two people were arrested for disrupting the meeting with anti-CoreCivic interjections.

— Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 10 Mar. 2026

Definition of interjections

Verb

This is the sort of pure 1980s batshit monologue that prompts both oh-my-Lord gasps and howls of laughter, and Neill nails the whole thing.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 July 2026
Up in the stands, fans waved their own flags — including some sneaked in over the objections of FIFA and the courts — and wrestled with emotions, as boos, howls and hisses rained down from all corners of the stadium.

— Rick Maese, Washington Post, 16 June 2026

Definition of howls

Verb

The Blackhawks dressing room was a rowdy scene after the game, their hoots and hollers reverberating throughout the bowels of the United Center.

— Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
Cowboy and cowgirl hoots and hollers complement the rumbling of the massive animals’ hooves as they’re rounded up into the corrals.

— Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 28 Dec. 2025

Definition of hollers

Verb

But they were outnumbered three or four to one by Argentina fans, who drowned them out with long flat roars whenever their team repelled a Spanish shot, or bundled a player off the pitch.

— Sam Knight, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
Ski and Snowboard at Big Bear Mountain Resort During winter, Big Bear Mountain Resort roars to life, with skiing and snowboarding as well as snow tubing on offer.

— Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2026

Definition of roars

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