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Whoo

//wuː// intj, noun, verb

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Intj
  1. 1
    An expression of delight and excitement.
  2. 2
    The wailing cry of a ghost.

    ""You are mistaken; I am a ghost; whoo!" said I, choking back my rage."

  3. 3
    The cry of an owl
Noun
  1. 1
    A "whoo" sound; the cry of an owl or similar.
Verb
  1. 1
    To make a whoo sound, of delight, whistling, or of an owl etc.

    ""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.""

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