wooer

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English

Etymology

From woo +‎ -er; from Middle English wowere, from Old English wōgere, from wōgian (“to woo”).

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Noun

wooer (plural wooers)

  1. Someone who woos or courts.
    • 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet XXIII”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. , London: [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, signature , recto:
      Penelope for her Vliſſes ſake, / Deuiz'd a VVeb her vvooers to deceaue: / in vvhich the vvorke that ſhe all day did make / the ſame at night ſhe did againe vnreaue, […]
    • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
      Whiles we shut the gate upon one wooer, another knocks at the door.
    • 1748, [Samuel Richardson], chapter XXIII, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: , volume IV, London: S Richardson;  , →OCLC, page 120:
      She wrote such a widow-like refusal when she went from me, as might not exclude hope in any other wooer; whatever it may do in Mr. Tony Harlowe.
    • 1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 8, in Mary Barton‎:
      Sally Leadbitter was vulgar-minded to the last degree; never easy unless her talk was of love and lovers; in her eyes it was an honour to have had a long list of wooers.
    • 1928, Dorothy Parker, “For a Favorite Granddaughter”, in Sunset Gun‎, Garden City, NY: Sun Dial, page 62:
      Never hold your heart in pain / For an evil-doer; / Never flip it down the lane / To a gifted wooer.
    • 1997, Saul Bellow, The Actual‎, New Yorks: Viking, page 20:
      She was, I think, the only girl I ever called on. I wasn’t much of a wooer. When I rang at her front door, her mother seemed taken aback. I should have been the dry cleaner’s messenger, picking up the blouses.

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  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
  • Cambridge International Dictionary of English, "Wooer," .
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