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oho

1. Expressing surprise or gloating realisation; aha.
   • 1880, Lucy Bethia Walford, Troublesome Daughters:

     "There is Kate, taking no heed of anybody; sensible old darling — she goes at her tea and cake — Oho! she has not touched them!"

   • 1914, Rupert Hughes, What Will People Say?:

     "Oho, my boy, that's the woman who keeps you here! Mrs. Neff hinted at it, but I wouldn't believe it till I had it from you."

   • 1988, Thomas Flanagan, The Tenants of Time:

     "Oho," he said, "a vile thing to say. It is. I am losing check upon my tongue, it is running free like a riderless horse. And I don't give a damn. I can say at last what I wanted for years to say, years of being politic and demure. No longer."

   • 1997, Bruce A Shuman, Beyond the library of the future:

     "Oho! Now I see where he's going with this, Frank thinks. Would have seen it earlier if I hadn't been so tired."

2. (archaic) The sound of weeping; boohoo.
   • 1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados

     "Oho, oho, oho!" she wailed. "I didn't know; I didn't know. I meant no harm; indeed I didn't, ma'am."

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