ooch

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To move or slide (oneself or someone, or something) by a small amount.

   “I ooched my car forward. In Dallas, tailgaiting is an art. You have to protect your place in traffic, or some yahoo will sneak in before you. So you have to drive two inches away from the bumper in front of you.”

2. fiil To cause (oneself or someone, or something) to change or progress by a small amount or in small increments.

   “An oocher, according to the The Encyclopedia Erratica, is a motorist who persists in ooching his speed to 35-miles-an-hour in a 30-mile zone. He also is the guy who insists on ooching another drink after the bars close.”

3. fiil To force (someone or something) to move without noticeable disruption or opposition; to nudge.

   “There is one man I haven't mentioned, who quietly, without any ostentation at all, circulated among all the thousands of boys and girls, who had been "ooched" out of Johnsville when the guards were arrested, a fellow by the name of Rifkin.”

4. fiil To move or slide by a small amount; to scooch, to scoot.

   “She didn't really pull away, just ooched over a little, leaving two or three inches between us—and I liked her better for it.”

5. fiil To move around in a restricted or small space; to squeeze, to squirm.

   “I still got sand stuck between my toes. I can feel it ooching around down there.”

6. fiil To change or progress by a small amount or in small increments; to nudge.

   “I mean, come on, unemployment is down for 3 straight months, and that's a good thing. In fact, unemployment claims, even they ooched up a tiny bit now, are for the last 3 or 4 months at all-time lows, which is encouraging in terms of what it says about the fundamentals of this economy.”

7. fiil To force to move without noticeable disruption or opposition.

   “From what General Slate said, Prettyboy will just get ooched out of Fort Murray and shipped to some nice restful post in Alaska.”

8. fiil To propel a boat or sailboard by rocking one's body back and forth.

   “But if you are racing a boat without a chute, especially a single-hander, ooching is usually more effective.”

9. isim A small amount by which something has changed or moved.
10. isim A small change or small amount of progress.

    “To prevent those mistakes from becoming corporate failures, we have created what we call the "ooch approach."”

11. isim An act of propelling a boat or sailboard forward by rocking one's body.

    “Presumably, this means that one may ooch only to initiate surfing or planing and that, if challenged, one must be prepared to defend one's ooching behavior in light of the conditions and the wave pattern. Potential problems: How many ooches are permitted per wave?”

12. ünlem A cry of discomfort or pain: ouch.

    “My mother must have whipped me for almost half an hour, even though it seemed like eternity. […] "Ooch, mama; ooch, mama; ooch, mama; I promise not to do this anymore!" / "I know you won't, believe me; you won't!" / "Ooch, mama; ooch, mama; ooch, mama; you are killing me!"”

13. isim Something that causes discomfort or pain; an ouch.

    “I had my toe redressed wiv bandage, gauze and plasters. I could tell you how Dr (Simon) Costain plucked the bits of old gauze out of my toe wiv tweezers. Dat's an ooch.”

14. fiil To cry out in discomfort or pain; to ouch.

    “Maybe he was trying to make up for all those crawdads, laughing at her ooching and owwing in that sticker patch.”

15. isim Alternative spelling of ouche (“a brooch or clasp for fastening a piece of clothing together, especially when set with jewels or valuable”).