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 The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 11 February 2021:

     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”). Equivalent to ass +‎ -h.

Noun

ahh (plural ahhs)

1. (African-American Vernacular, Internet slang) Pronunciation spelling of ass.
   • 2012 October 1, @sammmie_ellis, Twitter‎:

     Bring your ahh to school nigga

   • 2018 September 22, @beckiii3, Twitter‎:

     I really just fell on my Ahh^[sic] on this hover board.... I’m over it 😒

   • 2023 October 5, @404_Litee, Twitter‎:

     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:

     need to start working my ahh off once my injury heals completely for my laser treatment. huft.

   • 2025 June 19, @ayanadate, Twitter‎:

     Disown your ahh

See also

• -ahh

Anagrams

• hah