Wooed vs Whooed - What's the difference?
wooed | whooed |
(woo)
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.
(whoo)
An expression of delight.
The wailing cry of a ghost.
* 1949 , Robertson Davies, The table talk of Samuel Marchbanks
* 1996 , R A Noonan, Wild ghost chase
The cry of an owl
To make a whoo sound, of delight, whistling, or of an owl etc.
* 1891 , (Thomas Hardy), (w, Tess of the d'Urbervilles) ,
*:"Upon my honour!" cried he, "there was never before such a beautiful thing in Nature or Art as you look, 'Cousin' Tess ('Cousin' had a faint ring of mockery). I have been watching you from over the wall—sitting like Im-patience on a monument, and pouting up that pretty red mouth to whistling shape, and whooing' and ' whooing , and privately swearing, and never being able to produce a note. Why, you are quite cross because you can't do it."
As verbs the difference between wooed and whooed
is that wooed is past tense of woo while whooed is past tense of whoo.wooed
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*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
whooed
English
Verb
(head)whoo
English
Interjection
(en interjection)- "You are mistaken; I am a ghost; whoo !" said I, choking back my rage.
- Then he held up his hands and let out a weak ghost-howl. "Whoo ?" he moaned, in a tiny voice.
Synonyms
* (expression of delight) wahoo, whoopee, yay, yippee * (cry of an owl) tuwhit tuwhooVerb
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