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An expression of delight and excitement. examples
The wailing cry of a ghost. quotations examples
"You are mistaken; I am a ghost; whoo!" said I, choking back my rage.
1949, Robertson Davies, The table talk of Samuel Marchbanks
Then he held up his hands and let out a weak ghost-howl. "Whoo?" he moaned, in a tiny voice.
1996, R A Noonan, Wild ghost chase
The cry of an owl examples
third-person singular simple present whoos, present participle whooing, simple past and past participle whooed
To make a whoo sound, of delight, whistling, or of an owl etc. quotations examples
"Upon my honour!" cried he, "there was never before such a beautiful thing in Nature or Art as you look, 'Cousin' Tess ('Cousin' had a faint ring of mockery). I have been watching you from over the wall—sitting like Im-patience on a monument, and pouting up that pretty red mouth to whistling shape, and whooing and whooing, and privately swearing, and never being able to produce a note. Why, you are quite cross because you can't do it."
1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Part 6