Ooo vs Oof - What's the difference?
ooo | oof |
An abbreviation for hugs, usually placed at the end of a letter or in text messaging; often placed alongside xxx.
An abbreviation for Out of Office , a phrase often used in professional contexts to indicate that someone is unavailable for work (usually because they are on vacation).
A sound mimicking the loss of air, as if someone's solar plexus had just been struck.
Money.
* 1888 , , Colonel Quaritch V.C. (
* 1911–1912 , published 1916, , The World For Sale , book 2, chapter 10 (
As an abbreviation ooo
is an abbreviation for hugs, usually placed at the end of a letter or in text messaging; often placed alongside xxx.As an adjective OOO
is acronym of out of office|lang=en.As an interjection oof is
a sound mimicking the loss of air, as if someone's solar plexus had just been struck.As a noun oof is
money.ooo
English
Abbreviation
(Abbreviation) (head)- The little boy put ooo at the end of his letter to Grandma, to let her know he loved her.
- Bob is OOO today; let's ask Susie to help us with these TPS reports instead.
See also
* xoxoReferences
*oof
English
Etymology 1
(onomatopoeia)Interjection
(en interjection)Etymology 2
From (ooftish) or possibly connected with (etyl)Noun
(-)archive.org ebook), page 232:
- “Oh,” Johnnie was saying, “so Quest is his name, is it, and he lives in a city called Boisingham, does he? Is he an oof bird?” (rich)
“Rather,” answered the Tiger, “if only one can make the dollars run, but he's a nasty mean boy, he is.
Gutenberg ebook], [http://www.archive.org/details/worldforsaleano00parkgoog archive.org ebook):
- What's he after? Oof—oof—oof , that's what he's after. He's for his own pocket, he's for being boss of all the woolly West. He's after keeping us poor and making himself rich.