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woo
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: wo?o, IPA(key): /wu?/
- Rhymes: -u?
Etymology 1
From Middle English wowen, wo?en, from Old English w?gian (“to woo, court, marry”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots wow (“to woo”). Perhaps related to Old English w?g, w?h (“bending, crookedness”), in the specific sense of "bend or incline (some)one toward oneself". If so, then derived from Proto-Germanic *wanh? (“a bend, angle”), from Proto-Indo-European *wonk- (“crooked, bent”), from Proto-Indo-European *w?- (“to bend, twist, turn”); related to Old Norse vá (“corner, angle”).
Alternative forms
- wo, wow, wowe (obsolete)
Verb
woo (third-person singular simple present woos, present participle wooing, simple past and past participle wooed)
- (transitive) To endeavor to gain someone's support.
- (transitive) (often of a man) To try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with
- 1718, Matthew Prior, epistle to Charles Montagu.
- Each, like the Grecian artist, wooes / The image he himself has wrought.
- 1718, Matthew Prior, epistle to Charles Montagu.
- (transitive) To court solicitously; to invite with importunity.
- a. 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Summer Wind
- I woo the wind / That still delays his coming.
- a. 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Summer Wind
Synonyms
- (to solicit in love): court; see also Thesaurus:woo
Derived terms
- wooer
Translations
Etymology 2
Interjection
woo
- (slang) Expressing joy or mirth; woohoo, yahoo.
- "I got you a new cell phone." "Woo, that's great!"
Etymology 3
Adjective
woo (comparative more woo, superlative most woo)
- Alternative form of woo woo
Noun
woo
- Alternative form of woo woo
Anagrams
- OWO
Afar
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wo?/
Determiner
wóo
- that, those (masculine)
See also
References
Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
Middle English
Alternative forms
- wo, wa
Etymology
From Old English w?, w?, from Proto-Germanic *wai, from Proto-Indo-European *wai.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /w??/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
woo (plural woos)
- woe, torment, anguish
Synonyms
- angwissh
- we
Descendants
- English: woe
- Scots: wa, wae
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woe
English
Etymology
From Middle English wo, wei, wa, from Old English w?, w?, from Proto-Germanic *wai (interjection), whence also Dutch wee, German Weh, weh, Danish ve, Yiddish ????? (vey). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wáy (interjection). Compare Latin vae, Albanian vaj, French ouais, Ancient Greek ???? (ouaí), Persian ???? (vây) (Turkish vay, a Persian borrowing), and Armenian ??? (vay).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /w??/
- (General American) enPR: w?, IPA(key): /wo?/
- Rhymes: -??
- Homophone: whoa (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
Noun
woe (countable and uncountable, plural woes)
- Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
- Synonyms: grief, sorrow, misery
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- Thus saying, from her side the fatal key, / Sad instrument of all our woe, she took.
- 1717, Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard
- Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose / That well-known name awakens all my woes.
- October 14 2017, Sandeep Moudgal, The Times of India, Rains devastate families, political parties make beeline to apply balm on open wounds
- The Friday night rains which wrecked families in Kurabarahalli saw all the three major political parties making a beeline to express their condolences, listen to their woes and provide compensation in the hope of garnering their goodwill ahead of the 2018 assembly elections.
- Calamity, trouble.
- A curse; a malediction.
- Can there be a woe or curse in all the stores of vengeance equal to the malignity of such a practice?
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
woe (comparative more woe, superlative most woe)
- (obsolete) Woeful; sorrowful
- 1303, Robert of Brunne, Handlyng synne
- hys clerk was wo to do þat dede
- Wo was the knight and sorroufully he syketh.
- 1303, Robert of Brunne, Handlyng synne
Interjection
woe
- (archaic) An exclamation of grief.
Translations
Anagrams
- owe
Limburgish
Adverb
woe
- where
Alternative forms
- boe (Maastrichtian)
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *wuo, from Proto-Germanic *hw?.
Adverb
woe
- (eastern) Alternative form of hoe
Middle English
Pronoun
woe
- Alternative form of we (“we”)
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