Woz

//wəz// name, verb, slang

name, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 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'."

Proper Noun
  1. 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. 2
    Nickname for a person with the surname Wozniak. informal
  3. 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

Etymology 1

From was, wuz.

Etymology 2

Clipping of Wozniak.

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