ou

A probably extinct species of Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea.

Noun

  1. A probably extinct species of Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea.

Origin

From Hawaiian ʻōʻū.

Forms

ous

Noun South Africa, colloquial

  1. A fellow, guy, bloke.
    • Ag pleez Deddy won't you take us to the wrestling We wanna see an ou called Sky High Lee - 1962, Jeremy Taylor, “Ag Pleez Deddy”:
    • I couldn't care that the ous call me rooinek and sometimes whiterat because of my hair and face. At least I am not a hairyback I tell them. - 1975, Sheila Roberts, Outside Life's Feast: Short Stories, Johannesburg: Ad....
    • “They're the same good and solid ous they'd been before. Because they managed not to think.” - 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 292:

Origin

From Afrikaans ou, probably from Dutch ouwe (“old man”).

Forms

ous ouens