Verb: woo (wooed,wooing,woos) woo
Usage: informal
- Seek someone's favour
"China is wooing Russia";
- court
- Make amorous advances towards
"John is wooing Mary";
- court, romance, solicit
Usage: informal
- Pseudoscientific, supernatural or emotion-based beliefs with little or no scientific or logical basis
"He dismissed crystal healing as woo and preferred evidence-based medicine";
- woo-woo [informal], woo woo [informal]
Derived forms: wooed, wooing, woos
Encyclopedia: Woo, Michael