woo.
To endeavor to gain someone's affection or support.
Meaning & usage
To endeavor to gain someone's affection or support.
They're trying to woo the customers back with this new mobile plan.
Often of a man, to try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with.
To court solicitously; to invite with importunity; to solicit in love.
Where this word comes from
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”).
Alternative spelling of whoo, expressing joy or excitement.
"I got you a new cell phone." "Woo, that's great!"
Alternative form of woo woo.
Alternative form of woo woo (“esoteric, pseudoscientific phenomena”).
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