Meanings
- rareRare form of whoa.
‘So help me, I will run your arse right down to the police station!’ ‘Woa, that’s good! That’s good, man, sit down.
2012, Patty O’Furniture, chapter 12, in The Vacant Casualty: A Parody, London: Boxtree/Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 1562 more examples
“There was a man once who never ate cherry-tart, to which he was passionately devoted, because the stones stuck in his teeth,” he said. “I’ve forgotten his name.” / “Blaize!” said Tommers. “Thanks, Bags. Woa! That’s nearly a toothful.” / David, with an engaging smile, watched Bags playing about with the decanter-stopper.
[1924], E[dward] F[rederic] Benson, chapter XII, in David of King’s, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, “Second Year” section, page 229The gods, A.E. said, swished in to sit on the edge of the bed while he sketched them. Cock your head a little to the left, Mananaan Mac Lir; that’s too much—woa, that’s just right.
1949, Sean O’Casey, “Dublin’s Glittering Guy”, in Inishfallen, Fare Thee Well, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 274
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