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Ooh vs Uh - What's the difference?

ooh | uh |

As interjections the difference between ooh and uh

is that ooh is an expression of surprise while uh is expression of confusion or uncertainty.

As a verb ooh

is to go ooh

As a noun uh is

an occurrence of the interjection "uh".

ooh

English

Alternative forms

* oooh, ooooh

Interjection

(en-interj) (with as many 'o's as needed to express the length of the utterance )
  • An expression of surprise.
  • An expression of awe.
  • *
  • The sound made to imitate a ghost.
  • Used sometimes because of affection

    • Verb

  • To go ooh

    • See also

    * oh * ooh la la

    Anagrams

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    uh

    English

    Interjection

    (en-interj)
  • Expression of confusion or uncertainty.
    • Uh , who was that?
  • Space filler or pause during conversation.
    • Uh , let me see...

    See also

    * er * erm * um * uh-oh * oh

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An occurrence of the interjection "uh".
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 24, author=William Grimes, title=Uh, Lead My Rips: No More Bloopers, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Although Shakespeare refers to “hums and ha’s,” sifting through etiquette manuals and public-speaking guides turns up scant evidence of a prohibition against ums, ers and uhs , which are profuse in the first recording of Thomas Edison ’s voice, in 1888. Mr. Erard, rather ingeniously, traces the prohibition on um and other speech flaws to the advent of radio in the early 1920s. }}

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