oh

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /oʊ/

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• Audio (GA) (surprise)

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• Audio (GA) (realization)

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• Homophones: o, O, owe
• Rhymes: -əʊ

From Middle English o.

oh

1. Expression of surprise.

   Oh! I didn't see you there.

2. Expression of wonder, amazement, or awe.

   Oh, wow! That's amazing.

3. Expression of understanding, affirmation, recognition, or realization.

   Oh, so that's how it works.

4. A word to precede an offhand or annoyed remark.

   Oh, leave me alone.

5. A word to precede an added comment or afterthought.

   Oh, and don't forget your coat.

6. An invocation or address (similar to the vocative in languages with noun declension), often with a term of endearment.

   Oh, gosh

   • 1998, Max Martin, ...Baby One More Time (song performed by Britney Spears)

     Oh baby, baby, how was I supposed to know / That something wasn't right here?

7. Exclamation for drama or emphasis (often poetic).

   Oh, when will it end?

   • 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], OCLC 37026674, (please specify |book=1 to 5):

     Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]

8. Expression of pain. See ouch.

   Oh! That hurt.

   • 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], OCLC 731622352:

     "Oh! . . . oh! . . . I can't bear it . . . It is too much . . . I die . . . I am going . . ." were Polly's expressions of extasy

9. Space filler or extra syllable, especially in (popular) music.
   • 1968, MacKinlay Kantor, Beauty Beast:

     I'm off with the raggle-taggle gypsy-oh.

10. (interrogative) Expression of mild scepticism.

    "You should watch where you're going!" "Oh?"

11. A word to mark a spoken phrase as imaginary.

    What if he says "Oh, I need to see your ID"?

Particularly in the context of Internet conversations, "oh" is sometimes written with additional Os or Hs - for example, ohhh. See also ooh.

oh (plural ohs)

1. An utterance of oh; a spoken expression of surprise, acknowledgement, etc.
   • 2011, Seabert Parsons, The Lost Codex of Palenque, page 240

     There were ohs and ahs, and the people twisted about as they looked for her. Then they began to applaud.

oh (third-person singular simple present ohs, present participle ohing, simple past and past participle ohed)

1. (intransitive) To utter the interjection oh; to express surprise, etc.
   • 1852, Merry's museum and Parley's magazine (volumes 23-24, page 46)

     A quarter of an hour elapsed, and then, after several rings at the door-bell, a smothered laugh, and a good deal of ohing and ahing, the door was thrown open, and one by one, as they were announced, in came the expected characters.

From Middle English o, oo, from Old English ō, from Latin ō.

oh (plural ohs)

1. the letter O, o (more commonly spelled o)
   • 2006, Ben Bova, Titan, p. 33

     One genuine recycled local glass of aitch-two-oh

   • 2011, Shallon Lester

     Exes and Ohs: A Downtown Girl's (Mostly Awkward) Tales of Love, Lust, Revenge, and a Little Facebook Stalking

• o

From o (“zero”).

oh (plural ohs)

1. the digit 0 (especially in representations of speech)

   My telephone number is four-double-three-two-oh-nine.

• 'ho, HO, Ho, H₂O, h/o, ho

From Proto-Bahnaric *ʔɔh.

• IPA^(key): /ʔɔh/

oh

1. younger sibling

• IPA^(key): /oː/

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oh

1. oh

oh

1. (housing) Abbreviation of olohuone (“living room”).

• IPA^(key): /o/

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• Rhymes: -o

oh

1. oh

• oh là là
• oh non

• “oh”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɔː]

oh

1. oh (expression of surprise, etc.)

   Synonym: ó

• “oh” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “oh” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “oh” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /oː/

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oh

1. oh

• IPA^(key): [ˈo], [ˈox]
• Rhymes: -o, -ox

oh

1. oh!

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈoh/, [ˈo̞h]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈoh/, [ˈo̞h]
• Rhymes: -oh
• Hyphenation: oh

oh

1. Expression of surprise: oh!

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 359

oh

1. and

oh

1. Alternative form of ó

oh

1. Alternative form of of

• IPA^(key): /ˈo/ [ˈo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Homophones: o, ó

oh

1. oh (expression of awe, surprise, pain or realization)

• ah
• eh

• “oh”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014