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wo¹

Where it comes from

Variant of who.

interjection whoa

  1. A falconer's call to a hawk.
  2. A call to cause a horse to slow down or stop; whoa.

wo²

Where it comes from

Variant of woe.

noun wos · whoa

  1. countable, obsolete, uncountable Obsolete spelling of woe Such feeble arms, to work internal wo!

wo³

  • /wo/
  • /wɔː/

Rhymes with -o, -ɔː

Where it comes from

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.

noun wos · waw · waugh · whoa

  1. Derbyshire, Northern England, dialectal A wall. He stands ahint our wo.

verb waw · waugh · whoa

  1. Northern England, dialectal, obsolete, possibly 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; […]

Wo⁴

prefix

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

    Similar: Gliese, Gl, GJ

WO⁵

noun WOs · W.O. · W. O.

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of warrant officer

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Closest in meaning: susa, jen, begone, misery, sorrow, distress, anguish, grief, adversity, suffering, heartache, sadness, despair, pain, torment, affliction

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@misc{wo_2026,
  title = {wo},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wo},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}