ou

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see also: OU

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈəʊ.uː/

Noun

ou (plural ous)

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

Translations

• Russian: оу

Pronunciation

• (South Africa, British) IPA: /əʊ/
• (America) IPA: /oʊ/

Noun

ou (plural ous)

1. (South Africa, colloquial) A fellow, guy, bloke. [from 20th c.]
   • 1962, Jeremy Taylor, Ag Pleez Deddy (song)

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

   • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 292:

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

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OU

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Proper noun

1. Initialism of Open University
2. Initialism of Ohio University
3. Initialism of University of Oklahoma

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