ohs

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of oh.

   Soft ohs rippled through the crowd as the fireworks burst overhead.

   The children's delighted ohs filled the room when the cake appeared.

   Note

   One spelling does two jobs here. It counts exclamations, so adjectives can attach to each cry (soft ohs, delighted ohs). It also counts the letter whose name is oh, as when a word is spelled with two ohs. The initialism for office hours is already plural on its own, so it never takes this ending.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present indicative of oh.

   The toddler ohs at the airplanes passing overhead every afternoon.

   Each time the score updates, she ohs at the screen as if it had startled her.

   Note

   The verb behind this form is intransitive: someone ohs, but never ohs something. Whatever draws the sound comes in with at, as in she ohs at the screen or the toddler ohs at the airplanes. The spelling is identical to the plural of the noun, so only the sentence tells them apart. Ohs that fill a room are things; a child who ohs is doing something.

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