woo

verb

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

   “They're trying to woo the customers back with this new mobile plan.”

   “Behind this carefully crafted strategy of wooing Trump is a desire from Gulf states to solidify and formalize their positions as the US’ indispensable security and economic partners, and extract as much benefit for themselves as they can.”

   “He [Mark Zuckerberg] wanted to start an AI unit at Facebook, and to woo [Yann] LeCun [he] invited him over for dinner at his California home. A private chef prepared “chicken with some pretty good white wine”, LeCun recalls.”

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

   “Soo leue we syr Launcelot lyenge within that caue in grete payne / and euery day ther came a lady & brouȝt hym his mete & his drynke / & wowed hym to haue layne by hym / and euer the noble knyghte syre Launcelot sayd her nay. "So leave we Sir Launcelot lying within that cave in great pain; and every day there came a lady and brought him his meat and his drink, and wooed him, to have lain by him; and ever the noble knight, Sir Launcelot, said her nay."”

   “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.”

   “You woo me, you court me / You tease me, you please me / You school me, give me some things to think about / Ignite me, you invite me”

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

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

   “I woo the wind / That still delays his coming.”

   “It will be a tragedy if further enterprises of this kind—for example, the one proposed between South Wales, Bristol and the South Coast via Salisbury—are now deferred until they, too, are realised too late to make an impact on a public that is too firmly wedded to the roads to be wooed back to the trains.”

intj

1. (alt-of, alternative, informal)Alternative spelling of whoo, expressing joy or excitement.

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

adj

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of woo woo.

noun

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of woo woo.

   “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.”

name

1. A surname from Chinese.
2. A surname from Korean.