oo oo aa aa

alternative ooh ooh aah aah

1. onomatopoeicUsed to represent the sound of a monkey's cry.

   Holonyms: monkeyese, monkeyspeak

   5 more examples

   [He] asked to meet me in front of the monkey cage at the zoo in Jardin des Plantes. I'm standing there waiting, leaning against the fence eating licorice, when I hear behind me, "Oo, oo! Aa, aa!" And wouldn't you know, he's leaping up and down wearing a gorilla mask—and probably a two-thousand-euro Lanvin suit—doing monkey impressions, and he finishes by throwing himself into the bushes. I died laughing! What lunatic would be so elegant and so bananas?

   2007, Kirsten Lobe, chapter 7, in French Trysts: Secrets of a Courtesan, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 91

   The minute I start eating, two lads I can only describe as retards on Prozac started making monkey calls and picking on me. ‘Oo oo aa aa, hey monkey man, want a banana?’ Said one of them.

   2011, Eddie Kwadjo Danso, “Living the Life”, in Cockney Zulu, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 78

   "He said he's got a pet monkey!" shouted Bobby. […] "Of course it doesn't talk!" interrupted Suzie Limpten, the class know-it-all. "They make noises, you know, like ooh-ooh, aah-aah!"

   2012, Deshka Peneff, “Eric the Parrot”, in Monkey Tales, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, published 15 April 2013, →ISBN, page 17

   Max and Kai had fun and returned to play regularly. Finishing a rally, Max [a monkey] hollered, "Oo-oo, Aa-aa!"

   2016, Oliver [Clyde] Chin, edited by Don Menn, The Year of the Monkey: Tales from the Chinese Zodiac = 十二生肖故事系列：猴年的故事 (Tales from the Chinese Zodiac; 11), San Francisco, Calif.: Immedium, →ISBN

   Planet of the Apes by George Racket / Ooh-ooh, aah-aah! Ooh-ooh, aah-aah! / Ooh-ooh, aah-aah! Ooh-ooh, aah-aah! / Ch-ch-ch-chimp, chimp, chimp in outer space / Said goodbye to the human race / The first on Earth to ever escape, / To find his very own personal p-p-p-planet of the apes.

   2022, Tom Fletcher, “Track 5: Armstrong”, in Space Band, London: Puffin Books, →ISBN

   Synonyms: ooh-ah-ah, ooh ah ah, ook