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間投詞

oh

1. Expression of surprise.

   Oh! I didn't see you there.

2. Expression of wonder, amazement, or awe.

   Oh, wow! That's amazing.

3. Expression of understanding, recognition, or realization.

   Oh, so that's how it works.

4. A word to precede an offhand or annoyed remark.

   Oh, leave me alone.

5. A word to precede an added or comment or afterthought.

   Oh, and don't forget your coat.

6. An invocation or address (similar to the vocative in languages with noun declension), often with a tern of endearment.

   Oh, gosh

   Oh, baby

7. Exclamation for drama or emphasis (often poetic).

   Oh, when will it end?

   • Sir Walter Raleigh

     Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]

8. Expression of pain. See ouch.

   Oh! That hurt.

   • 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure Part 2

     "Oh! . . . oh! . . . I can't bear it . . . It is too much . . . I die . . . I am going . . ." were Polly's expressions of extasy

9. Space filler or extra syllable, especially in (popular) music.

   oh, oh, oh

10. (interrogative) Expression of mild scepticism

    "You should watch where you're going!" "Oh?"

別の表記

Particularly in the context of internet conversations, "oh" is sometimes written with additional Os or Hs - for example, oooh or ohhh.

関連する語

• ah
• o
• oh no
• ooh
• uh-oh
• oh my

名詞

oh (複数形 ohs)

1. the letter O, o (more commonly spelled o)
2. the digit 0 (especially in representations of speech)

   My telephone number is four-double-three-two-oh-nine.

3. An utterance of oh; a spoken expression of surprise, acknowledgement, etc.
   • Seabert Parsons, The Lost Codex of Palenque (page 240)

     There were ohs and ahs, and the people twisted about as they looked for her. Then they began to applaud.

動詞

oh (三人称単数 現在形 ohs, 現在分詞 ohing, 過去形および過去分詞形 ohed)

1. (intransitive) To utter the interjection oh; to express surprise, etc.
   • 1852, Merry's museum and Parley's magazine (volumes 23-24, page 46)

     A quarter of an hour elapsed, and then, after several rings at the door-bell, a smothered laugh, and a good deal of ohing and ahing, the door was thrown open, and one by one, as they were announced, in came the expected characters.

アナグラム

• ho , Ho, HO