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Woo

//wuː// adj, intj, name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Alternative form of woo woo. alt-of, alternative
Intj
  1. 1
    Expressing joy or excitement; woohoo, yahoo. slang

    ""I got you a new cell phone." "Woo, that's great!""

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Chinese.
  2. 2
    A surname from Korean.
Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of woo woo. alt-of, alternative

    "Physics hasn't been "looking" at it, certain men who embrace the Copenhagen Interpretation rather than Many Worlds or the Pilot Wave angles are resorting to woo."

Verb
  1. 1
    To endeavor to gain someone's affection/support. transitive

    "They're trying to woo the customers back with this new mobile plan."

  2. 2
    make amorous advances towards wordnet
  3. 3
    To try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with often, transitive

    "Soo leue we syr Launcelot lyenge within that caue in grete payne / and euery day ther came a lady & brouȝt hym his mete & his drynke / & wowed hym to haue layne by hym / and euer the noble knyghte syre Launcelot sayd her nay. "So leave we Sir Launcelot lying within that cave in great pain; and every day there came a lady and brought him his meat and his drink, and wooed him, to have lain by him; and ever the noble knight, Sir Launcelot, said her nay.""

  4. 4
    seek someone's favor wordnet
  5. 5
    To court solicitously; to invite with importunity; to solicit in love. transitive

    "Thee Chauntreſs oft the Woods among, / I woo to hear thy eeven Song;"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English wowen, woȝen, from Old English wōgian (“to woo, court, marry”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots wow (“to woo”). Perhaps related to Old English wōg, wōh (“bending, crookedness”), in the specific sense of "bend or incline (some)one toward oneself". If so, then derived from Proto-Germanic *wanhō (“a bend, angle”), from Proto-Indo-European *wonk- (“crooked, bent”), from Proto-Indo-European *wā- (“to bend, twist, turn”); related to Old Norse vá (“corner, angle”).

Etymology 2

From an irregular romanization of various Mandarin Chinese surnames including 吳／吴 (Wú), 伍 (Wǔ), 武 (Wǔ), and 巫 (Wū), or from Cantonese 胡 (wu4).

Etymology 3

From Korean 우 (u). * (surname): from Korean 禹, 于

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