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yeow | yeo |

As an interjection yeow

is expressing sudden pain or startlement.

As a proper noun yeo is

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yeow

English

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • Expressing sudden pain or startlement.
  • * 1999 , Annie Berthold-Bond, Better Basics for the Home: Simple Solutions for Less Toxic Living
  • Yeow ! I don't think I could recommend going to this extreme, but the story certainly illustrates the lengths to which one is inspired to go to experience the feeling of steam-cleaned skin.
  • * 1995 , Robin Gibson, The Sheriff of Whiskey City
  • "You see anything?" Yeow ! I jumped ten feet in the air, dropping the lamp in the process.

    yeo

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A stream or ditch
  • (dialect) A ewe
  • See also

    * rhyne

    References

    * OED 2nd edition 1989 British English