It first shows up in English in 1777, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. The word oof captures the sound we make when we expel our breath.
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I want to make sure to differentiate argh, a-r-g-h, from the pirate sound arrrrr, which, if you look at the websites that teach you how to speak like a pirate (and yes, those websites really do exist), is typically spelled a-r-r-r-r-r to capture the classic pirate sound. Argh, as one of the students in the video points out, is “a little angrier.” I started with ugh, and then I consciously changed it to argh to make my feelings more clear.
I wanted to express my frustration and let her know how sorry I was that I wasn’t going to be here. I was thinking about this the other day because I was sending an email to a friend who was coming to Ann Arbor when I was going to be out of town. ArghĪrgh for many of us is more an expression of frustration. In the video above, some people describe their use of ugh to express irritation, fatigue, and disappointment. So perhaps you’ve encountered something gross, or you’re in a situation that you don’t like: You can express your distaste by saying, “Ugh.” Ugh originally was a sound used to represent coughing, often in the phrase “Ugh, ugh, ugh.” From there it came to represent a sound of disgust. We have lots of interjections in English, including whoops, oops, yikes, eek, ouch, argh, and ugh.Īrgh and ugh are two interjections that sound similar, but can mean very different things.īoth argh and ugh go back about 200 years in English. Part of knowing and speaking a language is knowing the meaning of the little sounds we make as part of conversation.
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