ook

Used to represent the sound of the cry of an ape or monkey.

Interjection

  1. Used to represent the sound of the cry of an ape or monkey.
    • He tapped the Librarian on the shoulder. "Excuse me —" "Ook?" "Those guys just called you a monkey," said Glod. - 1995, Terry Pratchett, Soul Music:
    • The irate ape cries, "Ook ook! Ai ai ai!" He springs off the edge of the stone basin, clawing Cantare across the face and bursting through the door. - 2004, Robert Arellano, Don Dimaio of La Plata:
    • Fingers pinched my eyelashes and lifted one eyelid. I looked straight into a big, leathery black face surrounded by brown fur. “Ook?” asked the monkey. - 2014, Victoria Wessex, Shipwrecked with the Billionaire Rock Star:

    Synonyms: ooh-ah-ah ooh ah ah ooh ooh aah aah oo oo aa aa

Origin

Imitative of the cry of an ape or monkey.

Related

eek

Derived

Ookland

Verb

  1. To make the cry of an ape or monkey.
  2. Of a black person: to speak gibberish or nonsense.
    • Starts ooking and eeking About Slavery, Racism, Hair Salons, etc! - 2012 August 19, Trending Now, “Huge Feral Nigger Sheboon Chimps Out at Gas Station”, in aus.politics (Usenet):
    • On Saturday, April 27, 2013 11:40:40 PM UTC+10, nigger brndy ooked: > You all have AIDS, cock suckers. - 2013 April 27, [email protected], “Im the only normal person on here”, in alt.music.michael-jackson (Usenet):
    • Weird spectacle, to be expected of simians. The grieving mudda is wearing dark sunglasses even though it is night and appears highly medicated, she ooks and eeks and you can tell she is in her glory in front of the...

Forms

ooks ooking ooked