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aww

interjectionverbcommon in dialogue

  • //ɔː//
  • //ɑː//

Elongated form of aw.

interjection

  1. 1

    Elongated form of aw.

    Aww, that's so sad: he hasn't yet learned to ride a bike.

    Aww, look at the kitten curled up in her lap!

    THE BELL MAN. (Sits on the bed and bounches up and down.) Awwww, Great Gawd-a-mighty!

    &quotSanta Paws is always willing to hear Christmas wishes." He winked at Eva as Savannah buried her head under Eva's arm. "Aww, don't be afraid, sweetie. He won't bite." "Unless you're a cookie." […]

verb

  1. 1

    To make an aww sound.

Forms

past tense
awwed
past participle
awwed
present participle
awwing
third person singular
awws
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).