whoa

interjecciónverbotop 1 000 en diálogos de cine

Reino Unido//wəʊ//
Reino Unido//ʍəʊ//
Estados Unidos//woʊ//
Estados Unidos//ʍoʊ//

Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down.

interjección

1
Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down.
Whoa, Nelly!
The Negroes, having waited for the white people to go upstairs, began to come in. “Whoa now, just a minute,” said a club member, holding up his walking stick. “Just don’t start up them there stairs yet awhile.”
I can see Mickie getting hot, I'm about to grab his arm, hold him back, say, Whoa, whoa, Mick, not here, it ain't worth it what happened inside just now.
2
An expression of surprise.
Whoa, are you serious?
Whoa. Wait a minute, Doc. Are you trying to tell me that my mother has got the hots for me?
Jen: Douglas has asked me to be his PA. Moss: Oh. My. God! Well, that is something and a half. His PA? How... Whoa! His PA... Shut up! His PA! Jen: It means "personal assistant". Moss: Thank you. Right, OK.
3
Used as a meaningless filler in song lyrics.
I am the type who is liable to snipe you With two seconds left to go, whoa.
And oh whoa girl, it's a shame. Oh whoa girl, it's a doggone shame.

Etimología

Whoa (c. 1843) is a variant of woa (c. 1840), itself a variant of wo (c. 1787), from who (c. 1450), ultimately from Middle English ho, hoo (interjection), probably from Old Norse hó! (interjection, also, a shepherd's call). Compare German ho, Old French ho ! (“hold!, halt!”).

verbo

1
To attempt to slow (an animal) by crying "whoa".
He was whoaing the horses loudly, and they did seem to be going faster than usual—in fact, they were galloping.

Formas

pasado: whoaed
participio: whoaed
gerundio: whoaing
3.ª persona del singular: whoas

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whoa · Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down.

whoever · Who ever: an emphatic form of who.whole · Entire, undivided.wholesale · The sale of products, often in large quantities, to retailers…

Las páginas vecinas — El orden alfabético sigue las reglas del idioma, no el valor de los bytes: un acento solo desempata entre dos palabras por lo demás idénticas, y la Ñ es una letra propia con su propia sección.