Woo vs Swoon - What's the difference?
woo | swoon |
To endeavor to gain someone's support.
(often of a man) To try to persuade someone to marry oneself; to solicit in love.
* Prior
To court solicitously; to invite with importunity.
* Milton
* Bryant
(slang) Expressing joy or mirth; woohoo, yahoo.
A faint.
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
An infatuation
(dated) to faint, to lose consciousness
:* {{quote-book
, year=1918
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, author=Edgar Rice Burroughs
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to be overwhelmed by emotion (especially infatuation)
As a proper noun woo
is a chinese surname.As a noun swoon is
swan.woo
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) wowen, .Alternative forms
* wo, wow, wowe (obsolete)Verb
- Each, like the Grecian artist, wooes / The image he himself has wrought.
- Thee, chantress, oft the woods among / I woo , to hear thy even song.
- I woo the wind / That still delays his coming.
Synonyms
* courtDerived terms
* woo backEtymology 2
Interjection
(en interjection)- "I got you a new cell phone." "Woo , that's great!"
Etymology 3
swoon
English
Alternative forms
* swound (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- "I felt my strength fading away, and I was in a half swoon . How long this horrible thing lasted I know not, but it seemed that a long time must have passed before he took his foul, awful, sneering mouth away. I saw it drip with the fresh blood!"
Verb
(en verb)citation, genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage= I dropped the vessel quickly to a lower level. Nor was I a moment too soon. The girl had swooned . }}