woo

1. 1

   To endeavor to gain someone's affection or support.transitive

   • They're trying to woo the customers back with this new mobile plan.
2. 2

   Often of a man, to try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with.transitive

   • I haue beene wooed, as I intreat thee now, / Euen by the ſterne, and direfull God of warre, / VVhoſe ſinowie necke in battel nere did bow, / VVho conquers where he comes in euery iarre; […]
   • Each, like the Grecian artist, wooes / The image he himself has wrought.
3. 3

   To court solicitously; to invite with importunity; to solicit in love.transitive

   • Thee Chauntreſs oft the Woods among, / I woo to hear thy eeven Song;
   • I woo the wind / That still delays his coming.

syn. address · beau · bedear · chase after · endear · make a move (on) · make love · pitch woo · put the moves on · romance · solicit · spark

1. 1

   Alternative spelling of whoo, expressing joy or excitement.alt-ofalternativeinformal

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

1. 1

   Alternative form of woo woo.alt-ofalternative

1. 1

   Alternative form of woo woo (“esoteric, pseudoscientific phenomena”).alt-ofalternative

   • Physics hasn't been "looking" at it, certain men who embrace the Copenhagen Interpretation rather than Many Worlds or the Pilot Wave angles are resorting to woo.
   • The cognitive loopholes and biases that make us woo-prone are a human universal.