wo
interjectionnounnounverbcommon in dialogue
- //wo//
- //wɔː//
A falconer's call to a hawk.
interjection
- 1
A falconer's call to a hawk.
- 2
A call to cause a horse to slow down or stop; whoa.
Etymology
Variant of who.
noun
- 1
Variant of woeobsoleteObsolete spelling of woe.
Such feeble arms, to work internal wo!
They dance around them by night, and wo to the belated peasant who, passing by, is forced to join in their roundel; he usually dies of exhaustion.
Etymology
Variant of woe.
noun
- 1
A wall.
He stands ahint our wo.
Yo may turn up yor noses at me an' th' owd dame, An thrutch us like dogs agen th' wo : Bo as lung 's aw con nayger, aw'll ne'er be a beggar, So aw care no a cuss for yo o-o'.
[…] thinkan it ran at him, thrast him up again t' wo, ramm't at him, […]
Plantit up agen t'wo
Etymology
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.
verb
- 1
obsoleteTo 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; […]
It's a varra lang while—a caant tell ya hoo lang—sen it wes bilt, lang afooar Borradal fooak woet kucku in, er t' first cooach ran throo Dent, […]
Forms
- plural
- wos