wooer

noun
/ˈwuːə/UK/ˈwuəɹ/US

Etymology

From woo + -er; from Middle English wowere, from Old English wōgere, from wōgian (“to woo”).

  1. inherited from wōgere
  2. inherited from wowere

Definitions

  1. Someone who woos or courts.

    • Penelope for her Vliſſes ſake, / Deuiz'd a VVeb her vvooers to deceaue: / in vvhich the vvorke that ſhe all day did make / the ſame at night ſhe did againe vnreaue, […]
    • Whiles we shut the gate upon one wooer, another knocks at the door.
    • She wrote such a widow-like refusal when she went from me, as might not exclude hope in any other wooer; whatever it may do in Mr. Tony Harlowe.

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