oo arr
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Interjection
[edit]- (UK, West Country) Used to indicate agreement.
- Oo arr, that's a good idea.
- (UK, West Country) Used to introduce a refutation, sometimes sarcastically.
- Oo arr, you and whose army?
- (UK, West Country) Used to imply innuendo.
- You like peaches? Oo arr.
Usage notes
[edit]Often used in mockery as a stereotypical phrase in the Mummerset accent.
Quotations
[edit]- 1976, The Wurzels, I Am A Cider Drinker:
- And we'll sink a pint of Scrumpy,
Then we'll play old nature's game.
(Ha ha ha! Oo arr!)
- 1985, Spike Milligan, Where Have All the Bullets Gone?:
- 'Oo arr, but them's not memburs o' the Narzee party.'
- 1988, Brian Jacques, Mossflower, page 179:
- 'Oo arr, oo bliss 'n' joys. Hurr, this be the loif, Gonffen!'
- 2014 March 6, “Give it up before you oo-arr - George Michael gave up cannabis because it gave him a Westcountry accent”, in North Devon Journal: