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Yeow vs Yow - What's the difference?

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As interjections the difference between yeow and yow

is that yeow is expressing sudden pain or startlement while yow is expression of humorous surprise or emphasis.

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.

    yow

    English

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • Expression of humorous surprise or emphasis.
    • You've been divorced four times? Yow !
  • Expression of pain; ouch.
    • Yow ! I dropped it on my toe!

    Synonyms

    * ouch, youch

    Anagrams

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