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Aooonde!

Portuguese

Meaning

No way! / Get out of here!

Example

Tu acreditou nessa história? Aooonde!

You believed that story? No way!

Origin

An emphatic Bahian interjection of incredulity, with the vowel dramatically stretched ('a-ooo-nde') for effect. It's not really a question about location: the rhetorical force is closer to 'as if!