Aah vs Gah - What's the difference?
aah | gah |
Indication of amazement or surprise or enthusiasm.
Indication of joyful pleasure.
* 1834 — (Edgar Allan Poe),
Indication of sympathy.
Indication of mouth being opened wide.
To express understanding.
Expression of amazement or surprise or enthusiasm.
Expression of joy and/or pleasure.
The exclamation aah.
To say or exclaim aah .
# To express amazement or surprise or enthusiasm, especially by the interjection aah .
# To express joy or pleasure, especially by the interjection aah .
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=January 20, author=Alison Godfrey, title=Coles, Woolworths and IGA workers vent about customers on Facebook, work=Herald Sun, quotee=Bronwyn Lovejoy
, passage=“And stop calling it soccerball! gah ! do any of the tickets say soccerball? no!“”}}
As interjections the difference between aah and gah
is that aah is indication of amazement or surprise or enthusiasm while gah is Used to express exasperation or annoyance.As a noun aah
is expression of amazement or surprise or enthusiasm.As a verb aah
is to say or exclaim aah.aah
English
Interjection
(en interjection)- Aah! That's amazing!
- Yet I remember—aah! how should I forget?
- Dentists would always instruct, say aah!
- Aah . Now I understand.
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- Everyone who came by oohed and aahed over her new appearance.
Usage notes
* Usually the verb is intransitive. The object of feelings usually is indicated by the prepositions over or at; sometimes it occurs as a direct object, especially in passive constructions. * Very often the word is used together with some other verb derived from an interjection. The most common combination is to ooh and aah . Perhaps it should be regarded as a separate lexical item. * The word belongs to the informal style.Anagrams
* English three-letter words ----gah
English
Interjection
(en interjection)citation