oo oo aa aa
/ˈʔuʔu ˈʔɑʔɑ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.13 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Holonyms: monkeyese, monkeyspeak"
- "[He] asked to meet me in front of the monkey cage at the zoo in Jardin des Plantes. I'm standing there waiting, leaning against the fence eating licorice, when I hear behind me, "Oo, oo! Aa, aa!" And wouldn't you know, he's leaping up and down wearing a gorilla mask—and probably a two-thousand-euro Lanvin suit—doing monkey impressions, and he finishes by throwing himself into the bushes. I died laughing! What lunatic would be so elegant and so bananas?"
- "The minute I start eating, two lads I can only describe as retards on Prozac started making monkey calls and picking on me. ‘Oo oo aa aa, hey monkey man, want a banana?’ Said one of them."
- ""He said he's got a pet monkey!" shouted Bobby. […] "Of course it doesn't talk!" interrupted Suzie Limpten, the class know-it-all. "They make noises, you know, like ooh-ooh, aah-aah!""
- "Max and Kai had fun and returned to play regularly. Finishing a rally, Max [a monkey] hollered, "Oo-oo, Aa-aa!""
- "Planet of the Apes by George Racket / Ooh-ooh, aah-aah! Ooh-ooh, aah-aah! / Ooh-ooh, aah-aah! Ooh-ooh, aah-aah! / Ch-ch-ch-chimp, chimp, chimp in outer space / Said goodbye to the human race / The first on Earth to ever escape, / To find his very own personal p-p-p-planet of the apes."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈʔuʔu ˈʔɑʔɑ/
- British English: /ˈʔuːʔuː ˈʔɑːʔɑː/