Wo
intj, noun, prefix, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Obsolete spelling of woe. alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable
"Such feeble arms, to work internal wo!"
- 2 A wall. Derbyshire, Northern-England, dialectal
"He stands ahint our wo."
- 3 Initialism of warrant officer. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 1 To wall (to build a wall, or build a wall around). Northern-England, dialectal, obsolete, possibly
"[…] “Theer was anudder time, teu, 'at I saw t Park Boggle, in anudder form; bit I wassent seah nart that time, as I was when I'd been fetchen t hogs. I'd been wo-en a gap 'at hed fawn ower o' tudder side o' to Park; […]"
- 1 A falconer's call to a hawk.
- 2 A call to cause a horse to slow down or stop; whoa.
- 1 the prefix of catalog entries in the Gliese star catalog, the Richard van der Riet Woolley expansion morpheme
Example
More examples"Such feeble arms, to work internal wo!"
Etymology
Variant of who.
Variant of woe.
From Middle English wough, woh, wouh, from Old English wāh, wāg (“a wall, partition”), from Proto-Germanic *waigaz (“wall”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to bend, twist”). Cognate with Scots wauch, vauch.
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