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語源 1

From 中期英語 wowen, woȝen, from 古期英語 wōgian (“to woo, court, marry”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots wow (“to woo”). Perhaps related to 古期英語 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”).

別の表記

• wo, wow, wowe (obsolete)

動詞

woo (third-person singular simple present woos, present participle wooing, simple past and past participle wooed)

1. (transitive) To endeavor to gain someone's affection or support.

   They're trying to woo the customers back with this new mobile plan.

   • 2025 May 11, Nadeen Ebrahim and Abbas Al Lawati, “Trump is visiting three of the world’s richest nations. Here’s what’s on their wish list”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 12 July 2025:

     Behind this carefully crafted strategy of wooing Trump is a desire from Gulf states to solidify and formalize their positions as the US’ indispensable security and economic partners, and extract as much benefit for themselves as they can.

   • 2026 January 3, Melissa Heikkilä, “Lunch with the FT: Yann LeCun”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

     He [Mark Zuckerberg] wanted to start an AI unit at Facebook, and to woo [Yann] LeCun [he] invited him over for dinner at his California home. A private chef prepared “chicken with some pretty good white wine”, LeCun recalls.

2. (transitive) Often of a man, to try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with.
   • 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XIX, Chapter viii, leaf 393v:

     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.
     "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."

   • 1594, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC, [verse 17], lines [97–100]:

     I haue beene wooed, as I intreat thee now, / Euen by the ſterne, and direfull God of warre, / VVhoſe ſinowie necke in battel nere did bow, / VVho conquers where he comes in euery iarre; […]

   • 1718, Matthew Prior, epistle to Charles Montagu.:

     Each, like the Grecian artist, wooes / The image he himself has wrought.

   • 2000, Jill Scott, “He Loves Me (Lyzel in E Flat)”, in Who Is Jill Scott?: Words and Sounds Vol. 1:

     You woo me, you court me / You tease me, you please me / You school me, give me some things to think about / Ignite me, you invite me

3. (transitive) To court solicitously; to invite with importunity; to solicit in love.
   • a. 1645, John Milton, “Il Penseroso”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, page 39:

     Thee Chauntreſs oft the Woods among, / I woo to hear thy eeven Song;

   • a. 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Summer Wind:

     I woo the wind / That still delays his coming.

   • 1962 April, “Death from Natural Causes?”, in Modern Railways, page 218:

     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.

同意語

• (to solicit in love): court; see also Thesaurus:woo

派生語

• pitch woo
• wooer

語源 2

間投詞

woo

1. (informal) Alternative spelling of whoo, expressing joy or excitement.

   "I got you a new cell phone." "Woo, that's great!"

派生語

• woo girl

語源 3

形容詞

woo (comparative more woo, superlative most woo)

1. Alternative form of woo woo.

名詞

woo

1. Alternative form of woo woo.
   • 2020 February 13, LinuxGal, “Atheists claim a 'thing' happened.”, in alt.atheism‎ (Usenet), message-ID :

     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.

   • 2022 March 8, Laith Al-Shawaf, “Detecting Bull$%#!”, in Psychology Today‎:

     The cognitive loopholes and biases that make us woo-prone are a human universal.

派生語

• woo-monger
• go woo

参考

• wee woo

アナグラム

• OOW, OWO

別の表記

• wo, wa

発音

• IPA: /wɔ̝ː/, (later also) /woː/
  • 韻: -ɔː
• IPA: /wɑː/ (Early Middle English)
• IPA: /waː/ (Northern)

名詞

woo (plural woos)

1. woe, torment, anguish

   Synonyms: angwissh, we

   • c. 1225, “Feorðe dale: fondunges”, in Ancrene Ƿiſſe (MS. Corpus Christi 402)‎, Ludlow, Shropshire, published c. 1235, folio 65, verso; republished at Cambridge: Parker Library on the Web, January 2018:

     Ƿa ⁊ ƿunne ı þıs ƿoꝛld al nıs bute peintunge. al nıs bute ſchadeƿe.

     Pain and joy in this world aren't anything except for a picture; they're nothing but a mirage.

派生した語

• English: woe
• Scots: wa, wae

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代名詞

woo

1. alternative form of who (“who”, nominative)