FromMiddle Englisho ho;o, ho; equivalent too +ho.
oho
- 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."
oho
- oho,aha
- Synonym:aha
Perhaps a variant ofho.
oho
- oops,whoops-a-daisy(acknowledgment of minor mistake)
- Synonyms:hups,hupsis,hupsista
- wow,whoa,oh,ooh,ay, chihuahua(an indication of excitement or surprise)
- Synonyms:vau,vautsi,ahaa
Onomatopoeic.
oho
- oho!
- oho inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- oho in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Univerbation ofoo +ho.
ohò (Baybayin spellingᜂᜑᜓ)
- (honorific)yes
- Synonym:opo
- Antonym:hindi ho
- Opo is used as an honorific towards elders, superiors, and even strangers, whileoho is a slightly less formal honorific that can be used for intimate elders and superiors. However, the difference between the two has blurred in recent decades. In other dialects, there is no difference between the two at all and can be interchanged with one another.
- “oho”, inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila,2018
oho
- tokill
- IPA(key): [ˈo.hʲo]
- Hyphenation:o‧ho
FromProto-Polynesian*qoho. Cognates includeHawaiianō andSamoanoso.
oho
- provisions;supplies
FromProto-Polynesian*qoso. Cognates includeTonganʻoho andSamoanoso.
oho
- jump
oho
- (intransitive) tojump
- (intransitive) tohop
- (intransitive) torush
- (intransitive) tooverflow
- (intransitive) tointerrupt
- (intransitive, of celestial bodies) torise
- (intransitive, of emotions) toarise; toflare up
- R. Simona, editor (1986),Tokelau Dictionary[2], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page39
FromProto-Oceanic*(i-)ko with intrusiveo, fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*(i-)kahu, fromProto-Austronesian*(i-)kaSu.
oho
- you (singular)
- Malcolm Ross,Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia,Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
oho
- gloating realisation
