| 单词 | woo |
| 例句 | woo verb dated 1.•Richard wooed Joan all through their college years:romantically pursue, pursue, chase (after) | dated court, pay court to, romance, seek the hand of, set one's cap for/at, make love to. 2.•the party wooed voters with promises:seek, pursue, curry favor with, try to win, try to attract, try to cultivate. 3.•an attempt to woo him out of retirement:entice, tempt, coax, persuade, wheedle | informal sweet-talk.WORD NOTE woo There are plenty of synonyms for sex, not enough for flirtation and romantic pursuit, for the work of winning someone over. Make love used to refer to the process toward, with a little useful ambiguity; now it strictly denotes the act. Court sounds too aristocratic and medieval; seduce is overly limited to the carnal objective. That leaves woo. It's true that woo sounds a little goofy, but that might be ameliorated by more frequent use, or could even be considered a useful bonus connotation in a word for an activity that can put anybody in danger of making a fool of themselves. — DAConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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