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whoo

interjectionnounverbcommon in dialogue

  • //wuː//

An expression of joy and excitement.

interjection

  1. 1

    An expression of joy and excitement.

  2. 2

    The wailing of a ghost.

    "You are mistaken; I am a ghost; whoo!" said I, choking back my rage.

    Then he held up his hands and let out a weak ghost-howl. "Whoo?" he moaned, in a tiny voice.

  3. 3

    The cry of an owl.

noun

  1. 1

    A "whoo" sound; the cry of an owl or similar.

verb

  1. 1

    To make a whoo sound, of delight, whistling, or of an owl etc.

Forms

plural
whoos
past tense
whooed
past participle
whooed
present participle
whooing
third person singular
whoos
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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).