Etymology

ruh-roh

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The story

First used by Astro on the cartoon The Jetsons and later by Scooby-Doo in the Scooby-Doo cartoon series; both characters are dogs who speak broken English with the insertion of many r's.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.