Wooing vs Gooing - What's the difference?
wooing | gooing |
A courting; the process by which somebody is wooed.
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1 * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=June 7, author=T. Coraghessan Boyle, title=The Road Home, work=New York Times
, passage=The difference here is that the protagonists in this collection are, for the most part, at the end of their lives, and so the news of familial drama and divorce and the cocktail parties, barbecues and casual wooings of quotidian life in suburbia is given retrospectively, wistfully, presented in the larger context as memories of lost moments and lost opportunities. }}
As verbs the difference between wooing and gooing
is that wooing is present participle of lang=en while gooing is present participle of lang=en.As a noun wooing
is a courting; the process by which somebody is wooed.wooing
English
Verb
(head)- ''A man giving a gift of roses is wooing a woman.
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.}}
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