• enPR: wo͞o, IPA: /wuː/

woo (woos, present participle wooing; past and past participle wooed)

1. (transitive) To endeavor to gain someone's support.
2. (transitive) (often of a man) To try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with

   • Each, like the Grecian artist, wooes / The image he himself has wrought.

   • 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venvs and Adonis, London: Imprinted by Richard Field, […], OCLC 837166078 ↗, [verse 17 ↗]; 2nd edition, London: Imprinted by Richard Field, […], 1594, OCLC 701755207 ↗, lines [97–100]:

     I haue beene wooed, as I intreat thee now, / Euen by the ſterne, and direfull God of warre, / VVhoſe sinewy#English|ſinowie necke in battel ne'er#English|nere did bow, / VVho conquers where he comes in euery jar#English|iarre; {{...}

3. (transitive) To court solicitously; to invite with importunity.
   • a. 1645, John Milton, “Il Penseroso”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […] , London: Printed by Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Moſely,  […], published 1645, OCLC 606951673 ↗, page 39 ↗:

     Thee Chauntreſs oft the Woods among, / I woo to hear thy eeven Song;

   • I woo the wind / That still delays his coming.

• (to solicit in love) court; see also Thesaurus:woo

• French: courtiser, faire la cour
• German: den Hof machen, umwerben
• Italian: corteggiare
• Portuguese: cortejar
• Russian: уха́живать
• Spanish: cortejar, (Chile, informal) pololear, (Chile, slang) jotear, doñear

1. (slang) Expressing joy or mirth; woohoo, yahoo.

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

woo

1. Alternative form of woo woo#English|woo woo

woo

1. Alternative form of woo woo#English|woo woo

1. A Chinese surname

• Wu