woo

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To try to win someone's love or romantic interest.

   He spent months wooing her with flowers and letters.

2. 2
   verb

   To try to win someone's support, favour, or business.

   The company is wooing customers back with a cheaper mobile plan.

3. 3
   intj

   An exclamation expressing joy or excitement.

   "I got you a new phone." "Woo, that's great!"

From Middle English wowen, woȝen, from Old English wōgian (“to woo, court, marry”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots wow (“to woo”). Perhaps related to Old English wōg, wōh (“bending, crookedness”), in the specific sense of "bend or incline (some)one toward oneself". If so, then derived from Proto-Germanic *wanhō (“a bend, angle”), from Proto-Indo-European *wonk- (“crooked, bent”), from Proto-Indo-European *wā- (“to bend, twist, turn”); related to Old Norse vá (“corner, angle”).

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