ahh

See also: ah and -ahh

Translingual

Symbol

ahh

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Aghu.

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Aghu terms

English

Etymology 1

Interjection

ahh

  1. Alternative spelling of aah.

Noun

ahh (plural ahhs)

  1. Alternative spelling of aah.
    • 2009 January 4, Joe Brescia, “Twins Graduate From Columbia to Stardom at the Circus”, in New York Times[1]:
      In any given performance, their tosses and spins and leaps elicit oohs and ahhs from children and adults.
    • 2013, Tom Turpin, Modern Custom Guns: Walnut, Steel, and Uncommon Artistry, 2nd edition, Iola, Wis.: Gun Digest Books, →ISBN, page 47:
      The most underrated component in building a custom gun is the metalsmithing. Stock work immediately attracts attention. Fancy checkering patterns, meticulously executed, are sure to elicit oohs and ahhs.

Verb

ahh (third-person singular simple present ahhs, present participle ahhing, simple past and past participle ahhed)

  1. Alternative spelling of aah.

Etymology 2

Respelling of ass representing a pronunciation with elision of the final consonant, which can occur in African-American Vernacular English. Later non-African American Vernacular English uses are perhaps derived from, or influenced by, -ahh (-ass).

Noun

ahh (plural ahhs)

  1. (African-American Vernacular, Internet slang) Pronunciation spelling of ass.
    • 2012 October 1, @sammmie_ellis, Twitter[2]:
      Bring your ahh to school nigga
    • 2018 September 22, @beckiii3, Twitter[3]:
      I really just fell on my Ahh[sic] on this hover board.... I’m over it 😒
    • 2023 October 5, @404_Litee, Twitter[4]:
      I watched a gay nigga roast this baddie … I swear on everything she wasn't even bad to me no more after he fyed her ahh up 😂
    • 2024 May 27, @swweetrain, Twitter[5]:
      need to start working my ahh off once my injury heals completely for my laser treatment. huft.
    • 2025 June 19, @ayanadate, Twitter[6]:
      Disown your ahh
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