English-Thai Dictionary

woo

VI ขอ ความรัก (คำ เก่า และ คำ ทาง วรรณ คดี  ขอแต่งงาน  วิงวอน ให้ แต่งงาน ด้วย  เว้าวอน  court kor-kwam-rak

 

woo

VI พยายาม แสวงหา (เพื่อให้ ได้ สิ่ง ที่ ต้องการ เช่น  การ ยอมรับ  ชื่อเสียง  การอนุญาต  แสวงหา  เสาะหา  pa-ya-yam-sa-wang-ha

 

woo

VT ขอ ความรัก (คำ เก่า และ คำ ทาง วรรณ คดี  ขอแต่งงาน  วิงวอน ให้ แต่งงาน ด้วย  เว้าวอน  court kor-kwam-rak

 

woo

VT พยายาม แสวงหา (เพื่อให้ ได้ สิ่ง ที่ ต้องการ เช่น  การ ยอมรับ  ชื่อเสียง  การอนุมัติ  แสวงหา  เสาะหา  pa-ya-yam-sa-wang-ha

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

WOO

v.t. 1. To court; to solicit in love.
My proud rival wooes another partner to his throne and bed--
Each, like the Grecian artist, wooes the image he himself has wrought.
2. To court solicitously; to invite with importunity.
Thee, chantress, oft the woods among, I woo to hear thy even song.

 

WOO

v.i.To court; to make love.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

WOO

Woo, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wooed; p. pr. & vb. n. Wooing. ] Etym: [OE. wowen, wo, AS. w, fr. w bent, crooked, bad; akin to OS. wah evil, Goth. unwahs blameless, Skr. va to waver, and perhaps to E. vaccilate.]

 

1. To solicit in love; to court. Each, like the Grecian artist, wooes The image he himself has wrought. Prior.

 

2. To court solicitously; to invite with importunity. Thee, chantress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even song. Milton. I woo the wind That still delays his coming. Bryant.

 

WOO

WOO Woo, v. i.

 

Defn: To court; to make love. Dryden.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

woo

woo |wo͞o wu | ▶verb ( woos , wooing, wooed ) [ with obj. ] try to gain the love of (someone, typically a woman ), esp. with a view to marriage: he wooed her with quotes from Shakespeare. • seek the favor, support, or custom of: pop stars are being wooed by film companies eager to sign them up. DERIVATIVES woo a ble adjective, woo er noun ORIGIN late Old English wōgian (intransitive ), āwōgian (transitive ), of unknown origin.

 

Oxford Dictionary

woo

woo |wuː | ▶verb ( woos, wooing, wooed ) [ with obj. ] try to gain the love of (a woman ), especially with a view to marriage: he wooed her with quotes from Shakespeare. • seek the favour, support, or custom of: pop stars are being wooed by film companies eager to sign them up. DERIVATIVES wooable adjective, wooer noun ORIGIN late Old English wōgian (intransitive ), āwōgian (transitive ), of unknown origin.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

woo

woo verb dated 1 Richard wooed Joan all through their college years: romantically pursue, pursue, chase (after ); dated court, pay court to, romance, seek the hand of, set one's cap for /at, make love to. 2 the party wooed voters with promises: seek, pursue, curry favor with, try to win, try to attract, try to cultivate. 3 an attempt to woo him out of retirement: entice, tempt, coax, persuade, wheedle; informal sweet-talk. WORD NOTE woo There are plenty of synonyms for sex, not enough for flirtation and romantic pursuit, for the work of winning someone over. Make love used to refer to the process toward, with a little useful ambiguity; now it strictly denotes the act. Court sounds too aristocratic and medieval; seduce is overly limited to the carnal objective. That leaves woo. It's true that woo sounds a little goofy, but that might be ameliorated by more frequent use, or could even be considered a useful bonus connotation in a word for an activity that can put anybody in danger of making a fool of themselves. — DA Conversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

woo

woo verb 1 Richard wooed Joan with single-minded persistence: court, pay court to, pursue, chase, chase after, run after; dated romance, seek the hand of, press one's suit with, set one's cap at, make love to; archaic spark. 2 the party wooed voters with promises of electoral reform: seek the support of, seek the favour of, try to win, try to attract, try to cultivate, chase, pursue, try to ingratiate oneself with, curry favour with. 3 an attempt to woo Green out of his semi-retirement: entice, tempt, coax, persuade, wheedle; informal sweet-talk, smooth-talk.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

woo

woo /wuː /動詞 ～s /-z /; ～ed /-d /; ～ing 他動詞 1 (援助 購買 投票を求めて )〈人 〉に «…するように » せがむ , 頼む ; 〈人 〉に支持を切望する (!見返りを求めて懇願する様子を含意 ) ▸ The candidate was wooing support from voters .その候補者は有権者に支持を求めていた .2 ｟やや古 ｠〈女性 〉に求愛する , 求婚する (court ).3 〈名誉 財産など 〉を追求する .間投詞 おーっ (!聴衆の興奮した声 ) ; 〖W- hoo; W- ～〗やったぁ , ようし , すごい (!体の底から沸き起こる衝動的喜びの感覚を表現する; ｟コーパス ｠元気いっぱいの状態や, 美人を見かけた時の興奮などを表現することが多い ) .名詞 (!次の成句で ) .p ì tch (the ) w ó o ｟米俗 ｠ペッティングする, いちゃつく .w ó o er 名詞 C 求愛 [求婚 ]者 .