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"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "pitch woo"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "wooer"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "woo-monger"
}
],
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"2": "enm",
"3": "wowen"
},
"expansion": "Middle English wowen",
"name": "inh"
},
{
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"1": "enm",
"2": "woȝen"
},
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},
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"2": "ang",
"3": "wōgian",
"t": "to woo, court, marry"
},
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"name": "inh"
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{
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"2": "wow",
"t": "to woo"
},
"expansion": "Scots wow (“to woo”)",
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{
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"1": "ang",
"2": "wōg"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "wōh",
"3": "",
"4": "bending, crookedness"
},
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},
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*wanhō",
"t": "a bend, angle"
},
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"name": "der"
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{
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"2": "ine-pro",
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"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
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"3": "*wā-",
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},
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"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "non",
"2": "vá",
"t": "corner, angle"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse vá (“corner, angle”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "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”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "woos",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "wooing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "wooed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "wooed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"1": ""
},
"expansion": "woo (third-person singular simple present woos, present participle wooing, simple past and past participle wooed)",
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}
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:woo",
"word": "allure"
}
],
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:woo",
"word": "flirt"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:woo",
"word": "serenade"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:woo",
"word": "suitor"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:woo",
"word": "set one's cap at"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:woo",
"word": "courtship"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"source": "Thesaurus:woo",
"word": "date"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"To endeavor to gain someone's support."
],
"id": "en-woo-en-verb-5EEaiWaF",
"links": [
[
"endeavor",
"endeavor"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To endeavor to gain someone's support."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "tawaddada",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "تَوَدَّدَ"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "uhažvam",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "ухажвам"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "festejar"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "zhuīqiú",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "追求"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "求愛"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qiú'ài",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "求爱"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "dvořit se"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "kurtisere"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "het hof maken"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "amindumi"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "kosiskella"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "riiata"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "vokotella"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "courtiser"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "faire la cour (à)"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "facer as beiras"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "umwerben"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"note": "für sich zu gewinnen versuchen",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "kortáro",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "κορτάρω"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "mnēsteúō",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "μνηστεύω"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "(khizér akharéy), חיזר אחרי"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "udvarol"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "kurtezar"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "corteggiare"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"alt": "きゅうあいする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kyūai surú",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "求愛する"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "aruaru"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "whakaipo"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "whaipo"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "whakawhaipo"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "mātoro"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "zalecać się"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "umizgiwać się"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "cortejar"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "curta"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "a face curte"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uxáživatʹ",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "уха́живать"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "svátatʹsja",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "сва́таться"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dobivátʹsja raspoložénija",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "добива́ться расположе́ния"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "snubiti"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "cortejar"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"tags": [
"Chile",
"informal"
],
"word": "pololear"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"tags": [
"Chile",
"slang"
],
"word": "jotear"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "doñear"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "uppvakta"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "kurtisera"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "svärma"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "kur yapmak"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "yazmak"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "asılmak"
},
{
"_dis1": "89 8 3",
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "oviren",
"sense": "to endeavor to gain someone's affection",
"word": "אָווירען"
}
]
},
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XIX, Chapter viii, leaf 393v",
"text": "Soo leue we syr Launcelot lyenge within that caue in grete payne / and euery day ther came a lady & brouȝt hym his mete & his drynke / & wowed hym to haue layne by hym / and euer the noble knyghte syre Launcelot sayd her nay.\n\"So leave we Sir Launcelot lying within that cave in great pain; and every day there came a lady and brought him his meat and his drink, and wooed him, to have lain by him; and ever the noble knight, Sir Launcelot, said her nay.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1718, Matthew Prior, epistle to Charles Montagu.",
"text": "Each, like the Grecian artist, wooes / The image he himself has wrought.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"(often of a man) To try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with"
],
"id": "en-woo-en-verb-~SeOpcmD",
"links": [
[
"try",
"try"
],
[
"amorous",
"amorous"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) (often of a man) To try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "6 71 23",
"sense": "to solicit in love",
"word": "court"
}
],
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"transitive"
],
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{
"_dis1": "4 94 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with",
"word": "den Hof machen"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 94 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with",
"word": "umwerben"
}
]
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{
"ref": "a. 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Summer Wind",
"text": "I woo the wind / That still delays his coming.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1962 April, “Death from Natural Causes?”, in Modern Railways, page 218",
"text": "It will be a tragedy if further enterprises of this kind—for example, the one proposed between South Wales, Bristol and the South Coast via Salisbury—are now deferred until they, too, are realised too late to make an impact on a public that is too firmly wedded to the roads to be wooed back to the trains.",
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"To court solicitously; to invite with importunity."
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"(transitive) To court solicitously; to invite with importunity."
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{
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"enpr": "wo͞o"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "wow"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0",
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"word": "address"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
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"word": "bedear"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
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"word": "chase after"
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"word": "endear"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0",
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"_dis1": "0 0 0",
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"word": "pitch woo"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0",
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"word": "put the moves on"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0",
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"word": "romance"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0",
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"word": "solicit"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0",
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"word": "woo girl"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "\"I got you a new cell phone.\" \"Woo, that's great!\""
}
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"Expressing joy or excitement; woohoo, yahoo."
],
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"(slang) Expressing joy or excitement; woohoo, yahoo."
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"enpr": "wo͞o"
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"etymology_number": 3,
"forms": [
{
"form": "more woo",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most woo",
"tags": [
"superlative"
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"word": "woo woo"
}
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"glosses": [
"Alternative form of woo woo"
],
"id": "en-woo-en-adj-5S1fAcX6",
"links": [
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"woo woo",
"woo woo#English"
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"alt-of",
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{
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"enpr": "wo͞o"
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"ref": "2020 February 13, LinuxGal, “Atheists claim a 'thing' happened.”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), message-ID <alpine.DEB.2.21.2002150505580.3311@teresita-Latitude-D630>",
"text": "Physics hasn't been \"looking\" at it, certain men who embrace the Copenhagen Interpretation rather than Many Worlds or the Pilot Wave angles are resorting to woo.",
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"ref": "2022 March 8, Laith Al-Shawaf, “Detecting Bull$%#!”, in Psychology Today",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (fc4f0c7 and c937495). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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