English
wo
see also: Wo, WO
Interjection
  1. A falconer's call to a hawk.
  2. A call to cause a horse to slow down or stop; whoa.
Noun

wo

  1. Obsolete spelling of woe#English|woe
    • 1815, Philip Freneau, A collection of poems, on American affairs and a variety of other subjects, page 82:
      Such feeble arms, to work internal wo!
    • But if there was a competition between a sick family and a new broach, the broach was sure to carry the day. This would not have been the case, had they been habituated to visit themselves the abodes of penury and wo.
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /wo/, /wɔː/
Noun

wo (plural wos)

  1. (Northern England, Derbyshire, dialectal) A wall.
    • 1859, Thomas Moore, The Song of Solomon in the Durham Dialect, ii. 9:
      He stands ahint our wo.
    • 1871, Benjamin Brierly, Weaver of Wellbrook, in Folk-song and Folk-speech of Lancashire (ed. William-Edward-Armitage Axon), page 53:
      Yo may turn up yor noses at me an' th' owd dame,
      An thrutch us like dogs agen th' wo :
      Bo as lung 's aw con nayger, aw'll ne'er be a beggar,
      So aw care no a cuss for yo o-o'.
    • 1880, Thomas Clarke, Specimens of the Dialect of Westmorland, page 41:
      […] thinkan it ran at him, thrast him up again t' wo, ramm't at him, […]
    • 1884, Jack Robison, Aald Tales ower Agen, 4:
      Plantit up agen t'wo
    • 1936, G. Halstead Whittaker, ''A Lancashire Garland of Dialect Prose and Verse, page 221:
      Hoo's pluck of a lion an' faces her foe
      Wi' calm in her e'en an' her beck agen t' wo;
      Hoo's firm i' decision, stonds up for her reets
      An' bravely withstonds o' t' misfortins hoo meets.
Verb
  1. (Northern England, dialectal, possibly, obsolete) To wall (to build a wall, or build a wall around).
    • 1871, John Richardson, "Cummerland Talk": Being Short Tales and Rhymes, page 101:
      […] “Theer was anudder time, teu, 'at I saw t Park Boggle, in anudder form; bit I wassent seah nart that time, as I was when I'd been fetchen t hogs. I'd been wo-en a gap 'at hed fawn ower o' tudder side o' to Park; […]
    • 1880, Thomas Clarke, Specimens of the Dialect of Westmorland, page 2:
      It's a varra lang while—a caant tell ya hoo lang—sen it wes bilt, lang afooar Borradal fooak woet kucku in, er t' first cooach ran throo Dent, […]
Wo
Prefix
  1. (star) the prefix of catalog entries in the Gliese star catalog, the Richard van der Riet Woolley expansion
Synonyms
WO
Noun

wo (plural wos)

  1. (military) Initialism of warrant officer


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