## Meanings
1. To try to win someone's love or romantic interest.
2. To try to win someone's support, favour, or business.
3. An exclamation expressing joy or excitement.

## Examples
- He spent months wooing her with flowers and letters.
- The company is wooing customers back with a cheaper mobile plan.
- "I got you a new phone." "Woo, that's great!"

## Synonyms
- address
- beau
- bedear
- endear
- romance
- solicit
- spark

## Derived Forms
- wooer

## Related Forms
- courtship
- date

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: wowen
- Root: wōgian
- Root: *wanhō
- Root: *wonk-
- Root: *wā-

## Etymology
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”).

## AI Etymology
Woo is 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”). In present-day use, it can mean to try to win someone's love or romantic interest, or to try to win someone's support, favour, or business. Related forms include courtship, date. Derived formations include wooer.

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- Emotions & Feelings

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