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wo

intj
/wo/

Etymology

From Middle English wough, woh, wouh, from Old English wāh, wāg (“a wall, partition”), from Proto-West Germanic *waig, from Proto-Germanic *waigaz (“wall”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to bend, twist”). Cognate with Scots wauch, vauch.

  1. derived from *weyk-✻
  2. inherited from *waigaz✻ — “wall”
  3. inherited from *waig✻
  4. inherited from wāh
  5. inherited from wough

Definitions

  1. A falconer's call to a hawk.

  2. A call to cause a horse to slow down or stop

    A call to cause a horse to slow down or stop; whoa.

  3. Obsolete spelling of woe.

    • Such feeble arms, to work internal wo!
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A wall.

      • He stands ahint our wo.
      • 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'.
      • […] thinkan it ran at him, thrast him up again t' wo, ramm't at him, […]

    2. To wall (to build a wall, or build a wall around).

      • […] “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; […]
      • 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, […]

    3. the prefix of catalog entries in the Gliese star catalog, the Richard van der Riet…

      the prefix of catalog entries in the Gliese star catalog, the Richard van der Riet Woolley expansion

    4. Initialism of warrant officer.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for wo. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA