Wooed vs Woned - What's the difference?
wooed | woned |
(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.
(won)
(wone)
(win)
To live, remain.
*1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), XII, xxxiii:
*:I long'd to leave this wand'ring pilgrimage, / And in my native soil again to won .
To be accustomed to do something.
The currency of Korea, making 100 jun in North Korea and 100 jeon in South Korea.
As verbs the difference between wooed and woned
is that wooed is (woo) while woned is (won).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!"