ohing
SayOH-ingUS/ˈoʊɪŋ/UK/ˈəʊɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of oh.
The audience kept ohing as each new float rolled past.
Her constant ohing over the baby photos made everyone smile.
Note
This form comes from a verb built straight out of an exclamation: to oh is to say oh in surprise or a similar reaction. Because that verb is intransitive, ohing takes no direct object. Whatever prompts the sound follows a preposition (ohing at the fireworks, ohing over a photo) or goes unsaid. Only the interjection yields this form, since OH as the abbreviation for Ohio or office hours has no verb behind it.
ohing is a form of oh
oh, verb: To utter the interjection oh, as an expression of surprise or a similar feeling. Full entry
- Spelling
- oh → ohing: add -ing
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