| 释义 |
wooer|ˈwuːə(r)|
Forms: 1 woᵹere, 3, 5 woware, 4–5 wowere (4 wouwere), 4–6 wower, 5–6 chiefly Sc. wowar, 5 woar, Sc. woweir, 6 Sc. wawar, 6–8 woer, 6– wooer.
[OE. wóᵹere, f. woo v.1 + -er1.]
One who woos a woman, esp. with a view to marriage, a suitor; rarely a woman who woos a man. Also in fig. context.
c1000ælfric Saints' Lives xvii. 157 Sume hi wyrcað heora woᵹerum drencas..þæt hi hi to wife habbon. c1025–50Rule of Chrodegang lii. (1916) 64 Þonne wite þu þæt hi beoð woᵹeras swiðor þonne preostas. a1225Ancr. R. 90 Ich am woware scheomeful. Ich nulle nouware bicluppe mine leofmon bute ine stude derne. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xi. 71 Ȝe faren lyke þise woweres, Þat wedde none wydwes but forto welde here godis. a1395Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) ii. xliv, That it myghte come to theffecte of true spousage he hathe suche gracyous spekynges this maner of a wower to a chosen soule. 1513Douglas æneis iv. Prol. 196 Traist nocht all talis that wantoun woweris tellis. 1546J. Heywood Prov. (1867) 73 He vnto hir a goodly tale began, More like a wooer, than a wedded man. 1635A. Stafford Fem. Glory 88 He compares God to a Woer, the Angell to a sollicitour, and Mary to the beloved. 1724Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) I. 8 Now, Woer, quoth he, wou'd ye light down I'll gie ye my doghter's love to win. 1828Scott F.M. Perth v, She were fittest Valentine in Perth for so craven a wooer. 1854Dickens Hard T. i. xvi, Mr. Bounderby went..to Stone Lodge as an accepted wooer. 1869Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. xviii. 44 ‘Love at first sight’ is no uncommon thing when Jesus is the wooer.
b. transf. of the lower animals.
1577Googe Heresbach's Husb. 126 b, If shee haue not been horsed before, she wil so beate her woer, yt [etc.]. 1889Science-Gossip XXV. 236 It is not always the males [sc. butterflies] who are the wooers.
c. Comb.
1513Douglas æneis xii. Prol. 300 To crowd In amorus voce and wowar soundis lowd. 1785Burns Halloween iii, The lads sae trig, wi' wooer-babs. 1825Jamieson, Wooer⁓bab,..the garter knotted below the knee with a couple of loops, formerly worn by a young man who was too sheepish to announce in plain terms the purpose of his visit. |