ou
nounnouncommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈəʊ.uː//
- United Kingdom//əʊ//
- United States//oʊ//
A probably extinct species of Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea.
noun
- 1
A probably extinct species of Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea.
Etymology
From Hawaiian ʻōʻū.
noun
- 1
A fellow, guy, bloke.
Ag pleez Deddy won't you take us to the wrestling We wanna see an ou called Sky High Lee
I couldn't care that the ous call me rooinek and sometimes whiterat because of my hair and face. At least I am not a hairyback I tell them.
“They're the same good and solid ous they'd been before. Because they managed not to think.”
Etymology
From Afrikaans ou, probably from Dutch ouwe (“old man”).
Forms
- plural
- ous, ouens
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ou · A probably extinct species of Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea.
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