ahh
Translingual
Symbol
ahh
See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Aghu terms
English
Etymology 1
Interjection
ahh
- Alternative spelling of aah.
Noun
ahh (plural ahhs)
- 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)
- 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)
- (African-American Vernacular, Internet slang) Pronunciation spelling of ass.
- 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