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whetted | wo |

As a verb whetted

is past tense of whet.

As an interjection wo is

a falconer's call to a hawk.

As a noun wo is

obsolete spelling of lang=en.

As a prefix Wo is

the prefix of catalog entries in the Gliese star catalog, the Richard van der Riet Woolley expansion.

whetted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (whet)

    • whet

    English

    Verb

    (whett)
  • To hone or rub on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening – see whetstone.
  • * Milton
    • The mower whets his scythe.
  • * Byron
    • Here roams the wolf, the eagle whets his beak.
  • To stimulate or make more keen.
    • to whet one's appetite or one's courage
  • * Shakespeare
    • Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar, / I have not slept.
  • * 2003-10-20 , Naomi Wolf, The Porn Myth] , [http://nymag.com/ New York Magazine
    • In the end, porn doesn’t whet men’s appetites—it turns them off the real thing.

    Derived terms

    * whetstone

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of whetting something.
  • That which whets or sharpens; especially, an appetizer.
  • * Spectator
  • * sips, drams, and whets

    • Anagrams

    *

    wo

    English

    (wikipedia wo)

    Alternative forms

    * whoa

    Etymology 1

    Variant of who .

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • A falconer's call to a hawk.
  • A call to cause a horse to slow down or stop; whoa.

    • Etymology 2

    Variant of woe .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1815 , Philip Freneau, A collection of poems, on American affairs and a variety of other subjects , page 82[http://books.google.com/books?id=BAkUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA82]:
    • Such feeble arms, to work internal wo !
  • * (Hannah More)
    • But if there was a competition between a sick family and a new broach, the broach was sure to carry the day. This would not have been the case, had they been habituated to visit themselves the abodes of penury and wo .

    Anagrams

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