Aug 3, 2015 · On the Skeptics StackExchange you quite often read users referring to certain things and practices as "woo". What is the origin of this word? How did it come to be synonymous with skeptics?

Nov 2, 2014 · Woo and woo-hoo (and variations like yahoo, yee-haw, and yippee) indicate excitement. (Woot, also spelled w00t among an online in-crowd, is a probably ephemeral variant.)

Oct 1, 2011 · What is the difference between coquette and flirt? They seem to mean the exact same thing; is it only their historical or etymological baggage that determines different usage?

Feb 27, 2024 · 3 I've seen "wee woo" used for all types of sirens, including ambulance and fire: Wee-woo! Wee-woo! It was the unmistakable sound of a police car siren. — Time Sneak

woo-. This isn’t a useful class of words to memorize, but they’re interesting in terms of etymology. The sequence wu is uncommon in English spelling (the letter w, as its name implies, used to be written …

Aug 5, 2017 · Is there a word for someone who always tends to be the catalyst to conflict, then backs out of said conflict with a victim mentality? For example provoking an argument and then saying …

Aug 25, 2015 · 3 I like the one suggested by the UD: Wee woo: is the sound a siren makes. It is used in jest, to make fun of police cars, fire engines, ambulances, anything with a siren, really. Popularized …

From the early 1500's until perhaps the mid-1900's, the following sense of make love was common: (now archaic) To make amorous approaches to; to woo, romance, court. To illustrate this sense, …

Feb 2, 2019 · If we spelled who without the W – making it ho like with do and to — it could still make sense, so why is there a silent W in the word who?

Nov 24, 2025 · This was used in Alsace and Switzerland so it made it to French, bivouac (pronounced "bee woo ack") and was used much during Napoleonic wars. Somehow, the French word made it to …