wooingn.

/ˈwuːɪŋ/

Forms: Old English wogung, Middle English wouhinge, wowunge, Middle English–1500s wowyng, wowing, 1500s woynge, wooyng, 1600s–1700s woing, 1600s– wooing.

Etymology: < woo v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

a. The action of woo v.¹; amorous solicitation, courtship: in Middle English often with dyslogistic implication.

ΘΠ

the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [noun]

wooingc1000

wouhlechec1230

wouhlechunga1250

love work?a1300

love-druryc1300

love playc1390

suitc1475

lovemakinga1500

loveshipc1500

suiting1568

courtship1600

courting1607

suitoringa1640

amouring1675

sparking1804

sprunting1823

lovering1848

twosing1940

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > seeking marriage > [noun] > seeking hand in marriage

wooingc1000

wouhlechec1230

wouhlechunga1250

suitc1475

suiting1568

courtship1600

courting1607

suitoringa1640

c1000 Ælfric Lives Saints vii. 301 Wearð þa se casere for þære wogunge astyrod.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 153 Wið woȝeunge. wið togunge. oðer wið ani tollunge.

a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 33 Icham for wowyng al forwake, wery so water in wore.

c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Hypsipyle. 1553 As wolde god I leyser hadde & tyme By proces al his wowyng for to ryme.

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2361 Now know I wel þy cosses & þy costes als & þe wowyng of my wyf.

c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 164 Caste out..leccherous woordys, wowynges, leccherous syȝtes.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cxcv Hys vnaduised wowyng, hasty louyng, and to spedy mariage.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 860 Our wooing doth not ende like an olde Play: Iacke hath not Gill.

1645 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Bad Times (1646) 106 I do not like the wooing, that you should fetch a Bride with Fire and Sword.

1721 A. Ramsay Last Time I came o'er Moor i I met betimes my lovely Maid, In fit Retreats for wooing.

1792 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 667 Duncan Gray cam here to woo, Ha, ha, the wooing o't.

1867 Ld. Tennyson Window 166 Here is the golden close of love, All my wooing is done.

1882 W. Besant All Sorts of Men II. xxvii. 202 No girl likes to do her own wooing; she must be courted.

Proverbs.a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 75 Pet. I would faine be doing. Gre. I doubt it not sir. But you will curse Your wooing neighbors. ] 1659 N. R. Proverbs 24 Courting and wooing brings dallying and doing.1670 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. 48 Happy is the woing, that is not long in doing.

b. frequently in to go, come, ride a (or †on) wooing.

c1460 J. Metham Wks. (1916) 150 Yt ys spedeful that day to go a wowyng.

1595 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1902) I. 201 His short gowne..which he had lente to Tho. Atkinson for iij dayes to ride on woweinge with.

a1611 in T. Ravenscroft Melismata sig. F^v The Frogge would a woing ride.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iii. 72 What Michael Cassio? That came a wooing with you.

1690 J. Locke Two Treat. Govt. i. xi. §135 His Servant whom he sent a wooing for his Son.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 129. ¶10 When they go a wooing..they generally put on a red Coat.

1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge iii. 251 He went out to-day a wooing.

c. figurative.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 92 Is wowunge efter godes grome & tollunge of his eorre.

a1240 Old Eng. Hom. I. 269 Her biginnes þe wohunge of ure lauerd.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 533/1 Wowynge, procacio.

1605 M. Drayton Poems sig. Dd5^v Except in perill thou doost not appeare, And yet not then, but with intreates and wooing.

1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. ii. 41 My Maiden-Muse flyes the lasciuious Swaines,..Will not dilate..His curious searches, his respectlesse wooings.

1856 L. H. Grindon Life (1875) xviii. 218 Work is the wooing by which happiness is won.

Compounds

General attributive.

wooing act n.

1704 W. Derham in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 24 1589* I have plainly shewed their Ticking noise to be a wooing Act.

wooing dance n.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) i. ii. 67 As wealth is burthen of my woing dance .

wooing day n.

1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. Aiv In loue is no lacke, no in no woyng day.

1878 C. Gibbon For the King (new ed.) iii The ardour of our wooing days.

wooing language n.

1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion To Rdr. sig. A4 To Gentlewomen & their Loues is consecrated all the wooing Language..feign'd by the Muse mongst Hils and Riuers.

wooing mind n.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 412 Hencefoorth my wooing minde shalbe exprest In russet yeas, and honest kersie noes.

wooing suit n.

1622 Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 210 He comes upon a wooing suit for the Infanta.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

wooingadj.

/ˈwuːɪŋ/

Etymology: < woo v.¹ + -ing suffix².

That woos.

a. That solicits in love; courting, as a lover; †wanton.

ΘΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > [adjective]

golec888

canga1225

light?c1225

wooinga1382

nicea1387

riota1400

wantonc1400

wrenec1400

lachesc1450

loose?a1500

licentious1555

libertine1560

prostitute1569

riggish1569

wide1574

slipper1581

slippery1586

sportive1595

gay1597

Cyprian1598

suburb1598

waggish1600

smicker1606

suburbian1606

loose-living1607

wantona1627

free-living1632

libertinous1632

loose-lived1641

Corinthian1642

akolastic1656

slight1685

fast1699

freea1731

brisk1740

shy1787

slang1818

randomc1825

fastish1832

loosish1846

slummya1860

velocious1872

fly1880

slack1951

the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [adjective] > wooing or courting

wooinga1382

courting1580

lovemaking?1615

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > seeking marriage > [adjective] > relating to courting or wooing > courting or wooing

wooinga1382

courting1784

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. vii. 13 The caȝte ȝunge man she kisseth; and with wowende [a1425 L.V. wowynge] chere she flatereth.

1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 409 [He] ordeyned wommen to serven hem..þat semede wowynge gigelottes in cloþing, face, and semblant.

c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 163 Whan þou, wyth wowyng woordys, styrest oþere to þi lust, it is dedly synne.

1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Satires ii. v. 285 The wooing Tribe, in Revellings employ'd, My Stores have lavish'd.

b. figurative. Alluring, enticing.

ΘΠ

the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > [adjective]

tolling?c1225

ticinga1400

allectivec1487

illecebrous1531

alluring1534

tracting1535

wooing1549

enticing1553

training1557

tittling1560

luring1570

adamantine1581

baiting1585

winning1596

attractive1600

adamantic1605

adamantive1605

enticeable1607

soliciting1608

magnetic1611

invitinga1616

allurant1631

inescating1633

invitative1634

magnetical1638

invitatory1646

tractive1658

odalisque1837

Pied Piper1869

lureful1887

follow-me1888

luresome1889

come-hitherish1901

come-hither1905

come-hithery1919

invitational1922

come-hithering1935

1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. James iv. f. xxxvi^v He maye not abyde the wowynge worlde to bee loued.

a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 73 They..Step back, or forward, in their wooeing wise.

1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice III. xi. iv. 274 The letter was most courteous, most complimentary, most wooing.

a1849 J. C. Mangan Coll. Wks.: Poems (1996) II. 63 Each wooing Zephyr that goes At will from flower to flower a-maying.

1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion ii. iv Be thou a wooing breeze.

in combination.a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 95 No Hæmus or soft Carpophorus appears More wooing-voic'd.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

单词	wooing
释义	wooingn. /ˈwuːɪŋ/ Forms: Old English wogung, Middle English wouhinge, wowunge, Middle English–1500s wowyng, wowing, 1500s woynge, wooyng, 1600s–1700s woing, 1600s– wooing. Etymology: < woo v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. a. The action of woo v.¹; amorous solicitation, courtship: in Middle English often with dyslogistic implication. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [noun] wooingc1000 wouhlechec1230 wouhlechunga1250 love work?a1300 love-druryc1300 love playc1390 suitc1475 lovemakinga1500 loveshipc1500 suiting1568 courtship1600 courting1607 suitoringa1640 amouring1675 sparking1804 sprunting1823 lovering1848 twosing1940 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > seeking marriage > [noun] > seeking hand in marriage wooingc1000 wouhlechec1230 wouhlechunga1250 suitc1475 suiting1568 courtship1600 courting1607 suitoringa1640 c1000 Ælfric Lives Saints vii. 301 Wearð þa se casere for þære wogunge astyrod. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 153 Wið woȝeunge. wið togunge. oðer wið ani tollunge. a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 33 Icham for wowyng al forwake, wery so water in wore. c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Hypsipyle. 1553 As wolde god I leyser hadde & tyme By proces al his wowyng for to ryme. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2361 Now know I wel þy cosses & þy costes als & þe wowyng of my wyf. c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 164 Caste out..leccherous woordys, wowynges, leccherous syȝtes. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cxcv Hys vnaduised wowyng, hasty louyng, and to spedy mariage. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 860 Our wooing doth not ende like an olde Play: Iacke hath not Gill. 1645 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Bad Times (1646) 106 I do not like the wooing, that you should fetch a Bride with Fire and Sword. 1721 A. Ramsay Last Time I came o'er Moor i I met betimes my lovely Maid, In fit Retreats for wooing. 1792 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 667 Duncan Gray cam here to woo, Ha, ha, the wooing o't. 1867 Ld. Tennyson Window 166 Here is the golden close of love, All my wooing is done. 1882 W. Besant All Sorts of Men II. xxvii. 202 No girl likes to do her own wooing; she must be courted. Proverbs.a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) ii. i. 75 Pet. I would faine be doing. Gre. I doubt it not sir. But you will curse Your wooing neighbors. View more context for this quotation] 1659 N. R. Proverbs 24 Courting and wooing brings dallying and doing.1670 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. 48 Happy is the woing, that is not long in doing. b. frequently in to go, come, ride a (or †on) wooing. Π c1460 J. Metham Wks. (1916) 150 Yt ys spedeful that day to go a wowyng. 1595 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1902) I. 201 His short gowne..which he had lente to Tho. Atkinson for iij dayes to ride on woweinge with. a1611 in T. Ravenscroft Melismata sig. F^v The Frogge would a woing ride. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iii. 72 What Michael Cassio? That came a wooing with you. View more context for this quotation 1690 J. Locke Two Treat. Govt. i. xi. §135 His Servant whom he sent a wooing for his Son. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 129. ¶10 When they go a wooing..they generally put on a red Coat. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge iii. 251 He went out to-day a wooing. c. figurative. Π ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 92 Is wowunge efter godes grome & tollunge of his eorre. a1240 Old Eng. Hom. I. 269 Her biginnes þe wohunge of ure lauerd. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 533/1 Wowynge, procacio. 1605 M. Drayton Poems sig. Dd5^v Except in perill thou doost not appeare, And yet not then, but with intreates and wooing. 1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. ii. 41 My Maiden-Muse flyes the lasciuious Swaines,..Will not dilate..His curious searches, his respectlesse wooings. 1856 L. H. Grindon Life (1875) xviii. 218 Work is the wooing by which happiness is won. Compounds General attributive. wooing act n. Π 1704 W. Derham in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 24 1589* I have plainly shewed their Ticking noise to be a wooing Act. wooing dance n. Π a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) i. ii. 67 As wealth is burthen of my woing dance . View more context for this quotation wooing day n. Π 1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. Aiv In loue is no lacke, no in no woyng day. 1878 C. Gibbon For the King (new ed.) iii The ardour of our wooing days. wooing language n. Π 1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion To Rdr. sig. A4 To Gentlewomen & their Loues is consecrated all the wooing Language..feign'd by the Muse mongst Hils and Riuers. wooing mind n. Π 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 412 Hencefoorth my wooing minde shalbe exprest In russet yeas, and honest kersie noes. View more context for this quotation wooing suit n. Π 1622 Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 210 He comes upon a wooing suit for the Infanta. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021). wooingadj. /ˈwuːɪŋ/ Etymology: < woo v.¹ + -ing suffix². That woos. a. That solicits in love; courting, as a lover; †wanton. ΘΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > [adjective] golec888 canga1225 light?c1225 wooinga1382 nicea1387 riota1400 wantonc1400 wrenec1400 lachesc1450 loose?a1500 licentious1555 libertine1560 prostitute1569 riggish1569 wide1574 slipper1581 slippery1586 sportive1595 gay1597 Cyprian1598 suburb1598 waggish1600 smicker1606 suburbian1606 loose-living1607 wantona1627 free-living1632 libertinous1632 loose-lived1641 Corinthian1642 akolastic1656 slight1685 fast1699 freea1731 brisk1740 shy1787 slang1818 randomc1825 fastish1832 loosish1846 slummya1860 velocious1872 fly1880 slack1951 the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [adjective] > wooing or courting wooinga1382 courting1580 lovemaking?1615 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > seeking marriage > [adjective] > relating to courting or wooing > courting or wooing wooinga1382 courting1784 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. vii. 13 The caȝte ȝunge man she kisseth; and with wowende [a1425 L.V. wowynge] chere she flatereth. 1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 409 [He] ordeyned wommen to serven hem..þat semede wowynge gigelottes in cloþing, face, and semblant. c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 163 Whan þou, wyth wowyng woordys, styrest oþere to þi lust, it is dedly synne. 1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Satires ii. v. 285 The wooing Tribe, in Revellings employ'd, My Stores have lavish'd. b. figurative. Alluring, enticing. ΘΠ the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > [adjective] tolling?c1225 ticinga1400 allectivec1487 illecebrous1531 alluring1534 tracting1535 wooing1549 enticing1553 training1557 tittling1560 luring1570 adamantine1581 baiting1585 winning1596 attractive1600 adamantic1605 adamantive1605 enticeable1607 soliciting1608 magnetic1611 invitinga1616 allurant1631 inescating1633 invitative1634 magnetical1638 invitatory1646 tractive1658 odalisque1837 Pied Piper1869 lureful1887 follow-me1888 luresome1889 come-hitherish1901 come-hither1905 come-hithery1919 invitational1922 come-hithering1935 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. James iv. f. xxxvi^v He maye not abyde the wowynge worlde to bee loued. a1653 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 73 They..Step back, or forward, in their wooeing wise. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice III. xi. iv. 274 The letter was most courteous, most complimentary, most wooing. a1849 J. C. Mangan Coll. Wks.: Poems (1996) II. 63 Each wooing Zephyr that goes At will from flower to flower a-maying. 1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion ii. iv Be thou a wooing breeze. in combination.a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 95 No Hæmus or soft Carpophorus appears More wooing-voic'd. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.c1000adj.a1382
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