/ˈwuːə/, /ˈwuəɹ/
OriginFrom woo + -er; from Middle English wowere, from Old English wōgere, from wōgian (“to woo”).
- Someone who woos or courts.
“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, […]”
“Whiles we shut the gate upon one wooer, another knocks at the door.”
“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.”
Formswooers(plural)