| 释义 |
woa, int.|wəʊ|
Also woah.
[Variant of whoa.]
= wo int. 2. Hence woa v., to stop (trans. and intr.) with the call of ‘woa’.
1840Dickens Old C. Shop xxxviii, Woa-a-a then, will you? 1856Putnam's Monthly Mag. Nov. 530/1 With a loud ‘woah!’ the man stopped the beast [sc. ass]. 1870S. Lanier Nine from eight 31, I woa'd my mules mighty easy. 1871M. Legrand Cambr. Freshm. 252 Woa, Princey, woa! But Prince wouldn't ‘woa.’ 1892Chevalier Wot Cher! iv, ‘Woa! steady! Neddy Woa!’ |