yeow
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See also: þeow
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Onomatopoeic; compare ow, yowch, etc.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -aʊ
Interjection[edit]
yeow
- Expressing sudden pain or startlement.
- 1999, Annie Berthold-Bond, Better Basics for the Home: Simple Solutions for Less Toxic Living:
- Yeow! I don't think I could recommend going to this extreme, but the story certainly illustrates the lengths to which one is inspired to go to experience the feeling of steam-cleaned skin.
- 1995, Robin Gibson, The Sheriff of Whiskey City:
- "You see anything?" Yeow! I jumped ten feet in the air, dropping the lamp in the process.