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She was lying in the lee of a fowlhouse in a crumpled posture, as if cohesion had been detached from her joints, which lobbed her in an untidy heap, like a lot of old bones, tied together with string. Her skull was hitched under her humped shoulders and her fallen jaw made a lipless O of her mouth, giving it an expression of imbecile astonishment.
(uncountable) A blood type that lacks A or B antigens and may only receive transfusions of similar type O blood, but may donate to all (neglecting Rh factor). Synonym: universal donor.
Therfore arte thou inexcuſable o man whoſoever thou be that iudgeſt. For in that ſame where in thou iudgeſt another / thou cõdemneſt thy ſilfe. For thou that iudgeſt doest evẽ the ſame ſilfe thynges. […] Thynkeſt thou O man that iudgeſt them which do ſoche thyngꝭ and yet doſt evẽ the very ſame / that thou ſhalt eſcape the iudgemẽt of God?
1998 October 17, M6968, “STORY: The Violation of Sunny a wrestling story, by Wonder Mike”, in alt.sex.stories (Usenet), retrieved November 22, 2014:
Sunny felt some cold and wet press against her pussy, it startled her, then it's tongue went deep inside of her, she had been eaten out before, but never this could, who ever was doing it was a real pro, and had to have the longest tongue in the world it was buried at least three inches inside of her and was taking long, hard strokes, it was trying to get even deeper, it was only seconds before she started shaking from her first O.
1999 March 31, JT aka GF, “Re: mary p., hex and going "downtown"”, in alt.psst.hoy (Usenet), retrieved November 22, 2014:
Further on, when she's about to reach her first O, the taste turns from no taste to champagne-like.
2010, Lonnie Hicks, Einstein, Religion, Politics and Literature, page 308:
She thought you could get pregnant from tonguing when kissing; about her first O and how it scared her; how she looked in the mirror afterwards to see if she had changed; about how scared she was when it came time to deliver the baby.
2011 June 14, wtw, “{wtw} - "4someWithFriends" (1/1)”, in alt.sex.stories (Usenet), retrieved November 22, 2014:
Now my friend was fingering my wife and licking her clit. My wife reached her first O of the night.
ACCORDING to various inscriptions about this famous temple we are told that it was erected to the memory of Ya Fei, "An Unswerving Guardian to the Heir-Apparent," of the Sung dynasty; "A Loyal-to-the-end Minister," who came from the ancient state of O-Kuo, the present Wu Ch'ang-fu of Hupei; and that it was erected by the Emperor Hsiao Tsung as an atonement for the weakness and follies of his father, Kao Tsung, toward a faithful servant of the empire who came to his untimely death through the diabolical schemes of men in high estate. Moreover, that after his death and burial, when the empire came to appreciate his great services to the people, the posthumous title of " Prince of O-Kuo" was bestowed upon his sacred memory.]
1944, Harold Burgoyne Rattenbury, China, My China, →OCLC, page 51:
In ancient times Wuchang was the capital city of the Kingdom of O. In Manchu times it was the residence of the Viceroy of the two provinces of Hupeh and Hunan. Since then its fortunes have changed with changing politics.
1976, Noel Barnard, The Proceedings of a Symposium on Scientific Methods of Research in the Study of Ancient Chinese Bronzes and Southeast Asian Metal and Other Archaeological Artifacts, October 6-10, 1975, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 107:
⁶There are actually several geographical identifications proposed for the State of O: Wu-ch'ang in Hupei, Huai-ch'ing in Honan, and Fu-fang, Shensi (in the south-east thereof). As two inscriptions connected with the State of O refer to invasions....
[…]Yang-yüeh 楊粵,⁴⁰ reaching as far as O鄂.⁴¹[…]He then enthroned his elder son K'ang 康⁴³ as King of Kou Tan 句亶,⁴⁴ his middle song Hung 紅 as King of O鄂,⁴⁵ and his younger son Chih-tz'u 執疵 as King of Yüeh-chang 越章.⁴⁶
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/ɔ/ is from Middle High German o in most closed syllables, in some dialects also in open syllables.
/o/ is from u in most closed syllables.
/ɔː/ is from ā; from o before certain consonants; in eastern Moselle Franconian from ou.
/oː/ is from uo in Ripuarian and northern Moselle Franconian; from ou in Ripuarian and northwestern Moselle Franconian; from ō in southern Moselle Franconian; in some Moselle Franconian dialects from o in open syllables.
A letter in the German-based alphabet of Central Franconian.
A letter in the Dutch-based alphabet of Central Franconian.
Usage notes
In the Dutch-based spelling, short closed /o/ is represented by ó, long open /ɔː/ by ao.
Doubling of long O
In the German-based spelling, long o is doubled to oo when the German cognate word has oo as well. Long o may or may not be doubled in the following cases:
when it is followed by two or more consonants: PloochorPloch;
when the German cognate has two vowel letters: BoomorBom (German Baum);
when the German cognate has a consonant lost or not present in Central Franconian: ZooteorZote (German Sorten);
when the German cognate has a short vowel: MooderorModer (German Mutter).
In the Dutch-based spelling, long o is always doubled in closed syllables, always written simple in open syllables.
1904, certificate of marriage number 9 of 1904 of Sint-Pieters-Leeuw (reproduced in: Patrick Trio ((Can we date this quote?)) Nakomelingen van Arnoldus O)
Op 10/02/1904 om 11:00 uur zijn voor ons Zacharias De Ro, schepen gehuwd: Theophilius O[…] enerzijds en anderzijds Maria Elisabetha Troucheau[…]
On February 10, 1904 at 11 am in the presence of ourselves, Zacharias De Ro, alderman, did marry: Theophilius O on the one hand and on the other hand Maria Elisabetha Troucheau
The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and O for information on the development of the glyph itself.
(linguistics)Either the vowel o/o/ or ö/ø/, depending on vowel harmony.
Usage notes
Used in linguistic descriptions in Finnish. For example, a Finnish grammar could use -tOn to refer to the suffix -ton (in e.g. mauton) or -tön (in e.g. ääretön).
The Kashubian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Kashubian alphabet article on Wikipedia for more, and O for development of the glyph itself.
A letter in the Latin alphabet, representing the vowels /o/ and /oː/
Usage notes
Historical Latin texts did not generally distinguish short and long vowels orthographically. In modern texts and editions of older texts, the vowels are typically written ⟨O⟩ and ⟨Ō⟩ to mark the length distinction.
Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.
In native Latvian words (and in some older borrowings), o represents the sound of IPA (e.g., otrs ). In more recent borrowings, it represents the original sound of the word, i.e. or (e.g., opera ).
The Polish orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the history of Polish orthography article on Wikipedia for more, and O for development of the glyph itself.
The thirteenth letter of the Scottish Gaelic alphabet, written in the Latin script.It is preceded by n and followed by p. Its traditional name is onn or oir(“gorse”).
The Silesian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Silesian language article on Wikipedia for more, and O for development of the glyph itself.
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “O”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies