YO!

haha hey, I'm looking for a decent list of "emotional words"

wow! yippee! yahoo!
etc.

I'm sure this won't be too hard to find, probably some website out
there has a list. I'm looking for a pretty long list. I mean not too
long, but something descent. 20 won't do. Just link me and I'm happy.

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 11 Oct 2003 05:36 PDT

Is this the type of thing you're looking for:

http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?q=amazing

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Clarification of Question by willstein-ga on 11 Oct 2003 20:19 PDT

Thank you all very much for your efforts, but I have already been to
www.dictionary.com and www.thesaurus.com

by the way, http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/crumbs doesn't seem to
work.

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Request for Question Clarification by googleexpert-ga on 11 Oct 2003 21:47 PDT

Hi willstein,
I found the following list of words at 
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~min/ILLDATA/Function_word1.htm

It doesn't contain "wow" and "yahoo" but it does contain "yippee".
Is this what you are looking for?
1       abracadabra
2       ah
3       ahem
4       ahoy
5       alack
6       alas
7       amen
8       bah
9       blimey
10      cheerio
11      congrats
12      congratulations
13      crikey
14      Deo
15      eh
16      er
17      eureka
18      fie
19      gadzooks
20      giddap
21      golly
22      goodnight
23      gosh
24      halleluja
25      hallelujah
26      heck
27      hey
28      hi
29      ho
30      huh
31      lo
32      oh
33      ouch
34      ow
35      phew
36      presto
37      prithee
38      psst
39      right-oh
40      roger
41      sh
42      shalom
43      shh
44      shucks
45      so
46      ssh
47      strewth
48      ta
49      ta-ta
50      tallyho
51      thanks
52      there
53      touche
54      tut
55      ugh
56      wah
57      what
58      whee
59      whoa
60      whoops
61      why
62      yah
63      yippee
64      yuck
65      zounds

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Clarification of Question by willstein-ga on 12 Oct 2003 09:34 PDT

Only about 10 of those in the list are what i am looking for.
If no one else can find me a better list, I'll let you have the answer.

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Request for Question Clarification by googleexpert-ga on 12 Oct 2003 10:31 PDT

Hi willstein,
I found another list at 
http://darkoshi.mybravenet.com/curses.htm
This time it contains words like "Yippee", "Wow" and "Yahoo", and some curse words.
At my count there seems to be about 500+ words and phrases at the link I gave you.

453 wowee!
454 yahoo!
455 yay! yeah!
456 yeah, baby!
457 yee-haw!
458 yes!
459 yippee!
460 zowie!
...
509 ummm... 
510 unh? 
511 unh! 
512 voi-la! 
513 yo! 
514 yow! 
515 yuck 
516 yum, yummy

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Request for Question Clarification by googleexpert-ga on 19 Oct 2003 08:27 PDT

Hi willstein,
I was just curious if you saw my list.

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Clarification of Question by willstein-ga on 23 Oct 2003 12:46 PDT

Dear googleexpert.

Thank you for your post, but it wasn't what I was looking for. I
didn't find what I wanted this time on answers.google and will close
this question completely.

Thank you.

The term that describes these type of words best I think is
Onomatopoeia:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=onomatopoeia

I have been unsuccessful at finding, so far, a large list of these
words but this may help another researcher

Words like "wow" and "yippee" are usually called "interjections".

I haven't found a neat list, but you might be able to make your own
from this page:
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/crumbs!

It has sections like:

phrases and interjections of surprise, shock, amazement 
phrases and interjections of enthusiasm/joy/appreciation/delight
phrases and interjections of compliment/praise 
phrases and interjections of sadness/despair

Here's an extract:

"spectacular! spiffy! splendid! stupendous! super! super-duper!
super-dooper! superb! sweet! swell! tight! terrific! this kicks butt!
this rocks! tubular! way out! whippee! whoo-hoo! woo-hoo! whoopee!
wicked! wizard! wonderful! wowee! yahoo! yay! yeah! yee-haw! yes!
yippee! zowie!"

Or here's a list of 148 Interjections, not all emotional:
"ADIOS, AH, AHA, AHEM, AHOY, ALACK, ALAS, ALL HAIL, ALLELUIA, ALOHA,
AMEN, ATTABOY"
http://www.satiche.org.uk/satiche/sat-0212.htm

Hope this helps - Leli

I am very fond of "Oy!"

Fill on the blank:

"Holy ____!"  place the word of your choice where you see the blank 

(it worked for Robin)

Holy Oy...!?!?!?!?

Willstein - I think the 'halfbakery' URL doesn't work as a clickable
link because of the exclamation mark on the end. You would need to
copy and paste it, making sure the final crumbs! has the punctutation
left on.

Good luck - Leli