Definition of "ohing" [ohing]

• Present participle of oh. (verb)

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• "He ended with two pictures: a drunkard's house and family, and a sober man's; both so true and dramatic in all their details that the wives fell all to "ohing" and "ahing," and "Eh, but that is a true word.""
• "But you must excuse me, my insufficient young lecturer, if I yawn over your imperfect sentences, your repeated phrases, your false pathos, your drawlings and denouncings, your humming and hawing, your ohing and ahing, your black gloves and your white handkerchief."
• "I got through craning my neck and ohing and ahing, looked down and saw a toy village some distance away below us."