OW Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

interjection

Definition of ow

as in ouch

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The girls, who have been aw-ing at Aniya’s love story with Carl, tell the boys to sit down.

— Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 1 July 2026
In the north of the British Isles, people sometimes combined ye, a second person plural pronoun for you, along with aw, meaning all.

— Bill Chappell, NPR, 16 July 2025

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Those two characters served as the yin and yang for the early MCU — Stark the brash, rakish genius; Cap the stalwart, aw shucks warrior — that became the franchise’s gravitational center.

— Adam B. Vary, Variety, 15 Feb. 2024
That’s what’s got everybody’s eyes rolling, her aw shucks/ohmygod!

— Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 7 July 2023

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