aah

Indication of amazement or surprise or enthusiasm.

Interjection

  1. Indication of amazement or surprise or enthusiasm.
    • Aah! That's amazing!
    • 'Aaah!' they sigh, as the silvery Space Shuttle races heavenwards on top of a towering pillar of flame. - 1985, Joan Morrison, chapter 5, in Share House Blues, Boolarong Publications, page 62:
  2. Indication of joyful pleasure.
    • Yet I remember—aah! how should I forget? - 1834, Edgar Allan Poe, The Assignation:
  3. Indication of sympathy.
    • Aah, I feel so bad for you...
  4. Indication of mouth being opened wide.
    • Dentists would always instruct, say aah!
  5. To express understanding.
    • Aah. Now I understand.
  6. The sound of one screaming (with as many a's or h's as needed for emphasis).
    • AAAHHH! A bug! A bug! Get it off me! Get it off me!
    • Aah! A rat!

Derived

say aah

Noun

  1. Expression of amazement, surprise, enthusiasm, or fear.
  2. Expression of joy and/or pleasure.
  3. The exclamation aah.

Forms

aahs

Verb

  1. To say or exclaim aah.
    • Everyone who came by oohed and aahed over her new appearance.
    • In the next few minutes, Molly tossed dress after dress aside, oohing and aahing at the varied fabrics, the elaborate detailing of each one, until she found a dress that was— / Breathtaking. - 2010, Kieran Kramer,...

    1. To express amazement or surprise or enthusiasm, especially by the interjection aah.

    2. To express joy or pleasure, especially by the interjection aah.

Forms

aahs aahing aahed

Derived

aaher