Woz
name, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 1 Eye dialect spelling of was. alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
""You woz saying," said the farmer, with slow, matter of fact, New England deliberation, "ez how you guessed you woz beguiled amongst the Injins by your Mexican partner, a pow'ful influential man, and yet you woz the only one escaped the gen'ral slarterin'."
- 1 A nickname from the given name Warren.
"Norton snapped his fingers. Monday's Warren's birthday. That's what I'll do. We'll get a couple of sheilas and I'll shout Woz out for dinner."
- 2 Nickname for a person with the surname Wozniak. informal
- 3 Nickname for a person with the surname Wozniak.; American inventor Steve Wozniak (b. 1950). informal
"In 1973, Woz was working for Hewlett-Packard. His dial-a-joke service got more than 2,000 calls a day."
Example
More examples""You woz saying," said the farmer, with slow, matter of fact, New England deliberation, "ez how you guessed you woz beguiled amongst the Injins by your Mexican partner, a pow'ful influential man, and yet you woz the only one escaped the gen'ral slarterin'."
Etymology
From was, wuz.
Clipping of Wozniak.
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