WOO, WOOER, WOOING
(also see COURTING)
NOUNS
► SPARKING courting, wooing → 1914 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► SUITORING wooing, courtship → 1671
NOUNS – PERSON
► COURT-PLASTER a wooer who sticks → 1926 US sl. (Bk.)
► MARROW a spouse, a husband or wife; a lover, a wooer; of animals or birds: a mate → 1724 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MERCHANT a wooer → 1884 Sc.
► OOER a wooer → 1813 Sc.
► PRETENDER a suitor; a wooer → a1625 obs.
► PURSUIVANT a wooer, a suitor → 1523 obs.
► WOWER a wooer → 1888 (Bk.)
VERBS
► ADDRESS to court a person; esp. to pay court to a woman with a view to marriage, to woo → 1677 obs.
► BUILD UP TO to court, to woo → 1896 Amer. dial.
► BUNDLE to court, to woo → 1941 Amer. dial.
► CRASH to court, to woo → 1973 Amer. dial.
► GAME to flirt, to woo → 1988 US sl.
► OO to woo → 1896 Sc.
► SPARK to woo a person
► SUE to woo, to court → 1596 arch.
► SUITOR to court, to woo → 1672 now chiefly Eng. dial.
► TALK to engage in courtship, to contemplate marriage; to court, to woo → 1895 Amer. dial.
► TING AFTER to court, to woo, to make love to → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TINKER AFTER to court, to woo; to make love to → 1900 Eng. dial.
► WALE to court, to woo → 1703 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► WYLE to choose, to select; to pick or sort out; hence, to court, to woo → 1737 Sc.