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ole

interjectionadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//əʊl//
  • United Kingdom/[oʊl]/
  • United States//ol//
  • //oʊˈleɪ//
  • //ɒˈleɪ//
  • //ɒl//

An interjection used to stir up excitement.

interjection

  1. 1

    An interjection used to stir up excitement.

    Harry Hooper living in No. 10 / He bought a toupee and glued it to his head / "It looks very natural" everybody said / But then his wife said "Toupee, isn't that a French word?" / And Harry said "Ole!" / She said "That's a Spanish word." / And he said "O.K., can't tell the difference these days."

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish olé.

adjective

  1. 1

    Variant of oldPronunciation spelling of old.

    D'you see the ole guy sitting over there?

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

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).