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whoa

interjeiçãoverbotop 1 000 nos diálogos de cinema

  • 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.

interjeição

  1. 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. 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. 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.

Etimologia

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. 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

pretérito
whoaed
particípio passado
whoaed
gerúndio
whoaing
3.ª pessoa do singular
whoas
As páginas vizinhasA ordem alfabética segue as regras da língua, não o valor dos bytes: um acento só desempata entre duas palavras de resto idênticas, e o espanhol trata o Ñ como uma letra à parte.

Conteúdo lexical proveniente do Wiktionary, sob licença CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrada de origem · Versão dos dados 2026-08-23

Posição entre as palavras do corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — legendas de cinema e televisão, ou seja língua falada e não escrita (CC BY-SA 3.0).