ou

plural ous

1. A probably extinct species of Hawaiian honeycreeper, Psittirostra psittacea.

plural ous · plural ouens

1. South AfricacolloquialA fellow, guy, bloke.First known use 20th c.

   Ag pleez Deddy won't you take us to the wrestling We wanna see an ou called Sky High Lee

   1962, Jeremy Taylor, “Ag Pleez Deddy”

   2 more examples

   I couldn't care that the ous call me rooinek and sometimes whiterat because of my hair and face. At least I am not a hairyback I tell them.

   1975, Sheila Roberts, Outside Life's Feast: Short Stories, Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, →ISBN, page 27

   “They're the same good and solid ous they'd been before. Because they managed not to think.”

   1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 292

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Open University.
2. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Ohio University.

   Synonyms: Ohio

3. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of University of Oklahoma.