Aug 3, 2015 · Secondly, woo is the shortened form, and it is also written as woo-woo and woo woo. Wiktionary says of its origin that it might be “intended to imitate the eerie background …

Dec 6, 2024 · Woo and woo-hoo (and variations like yahoo, yee-haw, and yippee) indicate excitement. (Woot, also spelled w00t among an online in-crowd, is a probably ephemeral …

Jan 10, 2013 · A character in D.H. Lawrence's novel Women in Love (published 1920) calls out, "Shu-hu!" to hail her sister in a crowded place. This must be the same as "yoo hoo". What is …

woo (w) v. wooed, woo·ing, woos v.tr. 1. To seek the affection of with intent to romance. 2. a. To seek to achieve; try to gain. b. To tempt or invite. 3. To entreat, solicit, or importune. v.intr. To …

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May 30, 2013 · Both "w/" and "w/o" were common U.S. abbreviations in correspondence, and in tight spots on data tables, until recently.

Tiddley Winky Woo is being used just to mean "like so" or as a flourish like we might say "ta-da". It's a reference to an old song. It's a reference to an old song. I'd not recommend a non-expert …

For more than four hundred years, to make love (to) had a more “courtly” meaning: “to pay amorous attention (to)”, “to court, woo”, according to the 1908 printing of the New English …

Apr 9, 2015 · I can't find "ideator" in traditional dictionaries, but I've found it on urbandictionary.com and with an unfortunate definition on Medical Dictionary (related to …

woo-. This isn’t a useful class of words to memorize, but they’re interesting in terms of etymology. The sequence wu is uncommon in English spelling (the letter w, as its name implies, used to …