"ooh-wee" meaning in English

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Interjection

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-ooh-wee.wav
Head templates: {{en-interj}} ooh-wee
  1. (informal) Expressing astonishment, admiration, dismay, excitement etc. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-ooh-wee-en-intj-T~1wiCbx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "2001, Eugene Williams, Free My Heart, page 57:",
          "text": "Ooh wee. That's been a long time.",
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          "ref": "2007, Evangelist Shanetria Peterson, The Greatest Part of Me and Now It's Time for Deliverance:",
          "text": "Just a look could cause sin, just an \"ooh wee, he is fine, I got to get with him!\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Kim Robinson, The Roux in the Gumbo, page 173:",
          "text": "“Ooh Wee,” he said. “She looks like some Lord have mercy with some good googly woogly on top.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Nai, A Hood Love Gave Me Life:",
          "text": "Ooh wee baby them shits is nice.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Louis A. Coppola, Good Medicine:",
          "text": "Ooh wee! The rum punch which has freed me from my oppressive compulsive self the way a balloon lifts its gondola from the earth, was now working the room.",
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          "admiration",
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          "dismay",
          "dismay#English"
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          "excitement",
          "excitement#English"
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        "(informal) Expressing astonishment, admiration, dismay, excitement etc."
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          "ref": "2007, Evangelist Shanetria Peterson, The Greatest Part of Me and Now It's Time for Deliverance:",
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          "text": "“Ooh Wee,” he said. “She looks like some Lord have mercy with some good googly woogly on top.”",
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        },
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          "ref": "2019, Nai, A Hood Love Gave Me Life:",
          "text": "Ooh wee baby them shits is nice.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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